Short Textbook of Prosthetics & OrthoticsThis book is an outcome of the authors’ long-felt desire to fill in the lack of a concise handbook for prescribing on prosthetics and orthotics to patients.
The language of the text and the format have been intentionally made simple to enable the readers to understand clearly and retain the subject easily.
This book is to help the Undergraduates in Medicine, Physiotherapy,
Postgraduates in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Orthopedics, etc.
on the variety of artificial limbs and calipers available and help them choose the best to suit the need of the patients.
R Chinnathurai, Professor and Head of the Institution,
Government Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, KK Nagar,
Chennai, India, is a good Academician with a very good clinical expertise. He graduated in Medicine and specialized in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation from Madras Medical
College, Chennai, India.
After joining the Government Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in 1996, he was instrumental in developing artificial limb center by newer technologies, instrumentation and innovative techniques like manufacturing light weight calipers, plastic molded spinal orthosis and low cost endoskeletal units.
He received the ‘Best Doctor Award” from the Government of Tamil Nadu in recognition of his services in 2006 in rehabilitation of physically
disabled.