Technology and the disabled. The development of the Northern Ireland Prosthetics/Orthotics/Aids Service.

Prescription and positioning: evaluating the physically disabled individual for wheelchair seating.

Within the past 10 years, technology has provided members of the seating team with new approaches in dealing with severely physically disabled children and adults. Positioning is often the first step in overall provision of technical aids. Before physically disabled individuals can operate augmentative communication devices, computer keyboards or other assistive or rehabilitative devices, they ...

Retrospective study of 14,400 civilian disabled (new) treated over 25 years at an artificial limb centre.

The Veterans Administration's standards program in prosthetics, orthotics, and orthopedic aids.

The Veterans Administration is increasingly employing standards in its Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Program. The standards now used are documents (Fig. 1) which present desired qualities and features of prosthetic and orthotic hardware and orthopedic aids and of fitted limbs and braces and then specify those attributes necessary to control their quality, safety, and performance. Standards for se...

Coupled bicycles for disabled and able-bodied to ride together.

The present note describes a very simple and economic, yet highly successful, concept which makes use of two standard bicycles and should prove useful in developing countries.

An Analysis of the Extent of Social Inclusion and Equity Consideration in Malawi’s National HIV and AIDS Policy Review Process

Background Equity and social inclusion for vulnerable groups in policy development processes and resulting documents remain a challenge globally. Most often, the marginalization of vulnerable groups is overlooked in both the planning and practice of health service delivery. Such marginalization may occur because authorities deem the targeting of those who already have better access to healthcar...