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ProsthetiKa partners with PAHO in Guyana
The Pan American Health Organization, a division of the World Health Organization, has been committed to helping improve rehabilitation services and particularly prosthetic and orthotic services in Guyana. ProsthetiKa contracted to PAHO to provide training to local prosthetists, orthotists, and physiotherapists in Guyana and completed a training project with PAHO in Guyana in August, 2018. …
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ProsthetiKa offers assistance in Columbia with Hughes International Clinics
Jon Batzdorff traveled to Bogota Columbia to work with Hughes International Clinics, fitting landmine victims with prostheses. The project involved a combination of direct assistance along with teaching local prosthetists, therapists, and technicians. The US team included expert prosthetists, therapists, and a technician to serve as mentors and also five prosthetics students from Georgia Tech …
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Guyana Project Off to a Great Start in 2018
ProsthetiKa sent a multidisciplinary team consisting of a prosthetist, an Orthotist, a physiotherapist, and a user advocate to Guyana to assess the wants, needs, capabilities, and possibilities. While there the team did technician training as well as fitting prostheses, orthoses, and providing physical therapy gait training. All services provided while working side by side with local Guyanese …
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Ukraine Prosthetics Assistance Project a 100% success
The arms fit, the legs fit, everyone was left smiling. US, Canadian, and Ukraine prosthetists all worked side by side, exchanging ideas and making unique, amazing prosthetic arms and legs. Now, the follow-up begins! Kudos to Tonya Kumka, of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress who conceived of all of this!! She also was the organizer and made …
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WRF Partners with Prosthetika
World Rehabilitation Fund (WRF) has partnered with ProsthetiKa on projects in Haiti, Mexico, Bolivia, and Ecuador. In their most ambitious cooperative effort, WRF has joined ProsthetiKa in support of the Haiti prosthetics and orthotics facility. WRF contributes funding as well as logistical assistance in shipping materials. This joint effort has allowed each organization to maximize their respective donations by …
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Tanzania Prosthetics Training
During September, Jon Batzdorff, CPO provided training in Ischial Containment Prosthetic Socket Technology in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This technology is widely used in the US but rarely used in developing countries. The purpose of the workshop was to help provide more comfortable and functional prosthetic devices in developing countries and to provide these prostheses to a group of …