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IDS_Ireland_prosthetics_orthotics_IDS Ireland offer this free resource for Healthcare Professionals who are encountering prostheses and or orthoses for the first time, or are only occasionally in contact with them.

IDS ::: Definitions and Abbreviations

Prostheses are synthetic replacement body parts. This guide refers only to prosthetic limbs, i.e. artificial arms and legs.

Orthoses

  • Are externally applied devices used to control motion and function of body segments
  • Compensate for a disorder and reduce handicap for biomechanical (and psychological) reasons
  • Rely on 3 point fixation, moment arms and pressure distribution

Orthotic Abbreviations

AFO's - Ankle Foot Orthoses
FFO's - Functional Foot Orthoses
KAFO's - Knee Ankle Foot Orthoses
HKAFO' s Hip Knee Ankle Foot Orthoses
RGO' s - Reciprocating Gait Orthoses
TSO's - Thoraco Lumbo Sacral Orthoses
WHO's - Wrist Hand Orthoses

These refer to the human joints contained within the orthosis e.g. an H.K.A.F.O. is an orthosis which extends over the patient's hip, knee, ankle and foot.

N.B. these abbreviations are not always used. Some are referred to by a specific name such as a “flail arm splint.”

Other Abbreviations:

POP - Plaster of Paris
IDS - Independent Disablement Services
OTS - Off the shelf
CP -
PPT -
EVA -
ROM - Range of movement
RA -
RSI-
IDDM -
CVA -
SACH.
SAKL -
HOKL
PPAM

Other phrases:

Charot foot
Conventional
Cad-Cam 
transtibial
transradial
transfemoral
transhumeral
transcarpal
transcarpal
Lisfranc
Chopart
Pirigoff
Otto Bock
Hemi-pelvectomy
disarticulation
rehabilitation
Partial foot -anything between amputation of digits to an ankle disarticulation falls into this category.
myoelectric
Flexion contracture
Exoskeletal -means having an external framework. A crab is therefore exoskeletal. This is different from a human for example, as a human skeleton is effectively an internal framework A human is therefore endoskeletal.
Endoskeletal - means having an internal framework or chassis. A human is therefore endoskeletal as the skeleton is an internal framework. This is clearly a different situation from a crab which has an external framework – an exoskeletal construction.

 

 

IDS_Ireland_prosthetics_orthotics_IDS Ireland offer this free resource for Healthcare Professionals who are encountering prostheses and or orthoses for the first time, or are only occasionally in contact with them.
IDS_Ireland_prosthetics_orthotics_IDS Ireland offer this free resource for Healthcare Professionals who are encountering prostheses and or orthoses for the first time, or are only occasionally in contact with them. IDS_Ireland_prosthetics_orthotics_IDS Ireland offer this free resource for Healthcare Professionals who are encountering prostheses and or orthoses for the first time, or are only occasionally in contact with them. IDS_Ireland_prosthetics_orthotics_IDS Ireland offer this free resource for Healthcare Professionals who are encountering prostheses and or orthoses for the first time, or are only occasionally in contact with them. IDS_Ireland_prosthetics_orthotics_IDS Ireland offer this free resource for Healthcare Professionals who are encountering prostheses and or orthoses for the first time, or are only occasionally in contact with them.