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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …