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Formed in 1958, Northwestern University's Prosthetics-Orthotics Program has the longest history of any other school and it remains the largest program of its kind.
Located on the the 17th floor of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, a member of the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, the school is ideally situated to provide its students with unique educational opportunities. In cooperation with the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, and the Rehabilitation Engineering Prosthetics Orthotics Center, the school benefits from the synergy of education, clinical services, and research.
Accredited by the National Commission on Orthotics and Prosthetics Education (NCOPE), Northwestern University Prosthetics-Orthotics Center offers separate certificate programs for persons interested in pursuing careers as prosthetists or orthotists.
Our blended learning programs provide a strong theoretical and clinical practicum to prepare an individual for the American Board for Certification (ABC) practitioner-level certification exam. The programs consist of didactic and laboratory instruction: anatomy, kinesiology, pathology, normal and pathological gait, biomechanics, material science, evaluation, measurement, impression procedures, components, alignment, fitting, and fabrication.
The Northwestern University Prosthetics-Orthotics Center offers intensive continuing education and postgraduate courses to professional personnel serving physically challenged persons. Classes are open to orthopaedists, physiatrists, general and vascular surgeons, and other physicians, and to physical, occupational and kinesiotherapists, orthotists, prosthetists, pedorthists, and other professional rehabilitation personnel. The courses are designed to train qualified personnel in the fundamental and advanced techniques of managing the amputee or the person requiring orthotics management. Instruction in new techniques of measuring, fabricating, and fitting prostheses and orthoses, as well as current concepts of treatment, are emphasized.
