Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.    POP month is an effort to recognize and attract more people into professions that improve people’s lives through prosthetics, orthotics and pedorthics.   At the American Board for Certification,  Steve Fletcher is director of professional credentialing..

“The technology side of our profession has really exploded.  It has just enhanced and increased significantly.  A couple examples that people may have heard of is 3D printing.  We call that additive manufacturing.  But it’s a whole new way of fabricating a device that can be made extremely custom to an individual person’s needs.”

And of course, robotics and exoskeletons are bringing even more sophisticated tech into the fields as well.    More info… head to PopMonth.org.

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