Only Westcoast Brace & Limb Offers Free Screenings and the Full Range of Functional Electrical Stimulation devices — including the newly released Pediatric WalkAide and Bioness L300 Plus — for adult and pediatric patients in the Tampa Bay area with neurological disorders affecting upper and … MORE
Abby Wold is a 31 year old student at the University of South Florida in Tampa. In 2003, she survived Meningococcal Meningitis complicated by multiple organ failure, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and Waterhouse-Frederichsen syndrome. She was on life support with a grim prognosis and in a … MORE
Orthotics is the practice of evaluating, measuring, designing, fabricating, assembling, fitting, adjusting, or servicing of an orthosis (brace). An orthosis is generally prescribed to correct or alleviate neuromuscular or musculoskeletal dysfunction, disease, injury, or deformity.
The objectives of orthotic treatment include providing support/stability; preventing and/or correcting deformities; providing joint alignment; and improving function/gait. Some of the goals that an orthotist strives to achieve in creating an orthotic for a patient include making a lightweight device; a functional device; something that will help a patient conserve energy; and a comfortable device that improves quality of life.
Westcoast Brace & Limb has highly trained orthotists on staff to treat all kinds of orthotic patients. Some of the areas that Westcoast Brace & Limb specializes in for orthotics, include Scoliosis, Pectus Carinatum and Cranial Deformities (see cranial remolding orthotics section).
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ABC Board Certified Facility of Orthotic and Prosthetic Practitioners |
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Accredited by the National Commission on Orthotic and Prosthetic Education |