Prosthetics & Orthotics Service is an integral part of the health and rehabilitation service in a country.

More than 75% of developing countries have no prosthetics & orthotics training programmes which leads to poor coverage of prosthetics & orthotic services. Also for optimum reach of these services they need to be linked with primary health care services and community based rehabilitation programmes. 

WHO has recognized that although most basic rehabilitation activities can be carried out in the disabled person’s own community, many persons with disabilities have to be referred to other rehabilitation services outside their own community.   This is because prostheses and orthoses of good quality cannot realistically be made in every single community within a country. 

This means that appropriate & widespread reach of prosthetics and orthotics services there needs to be a strong relationship between the specialized services and community-based rehabilitation programmes. With regard to the provision of prosthetics and orthotics services, the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO) has gone some way towards defining the job descriptions and educational requirements for the different categories of personnel directly involved in this field. These categories are:  

• Prosthetist/orthotists (Category I)

• Orthopaedic technologists (Category II)

• Prosthetics/Orthotics technicians (Category III)

The current need is to train personnel in 3 levels (Post Graduate, Graduate & Diploma & certificate) to meet the demands at National, State, District level. There is a need to create rehabilitation services and facilities at all levels of different magnitude and with different kind of trained professional/ personnel almost like a cascade system.  

In response to this need Mobility India offers the following courses in Prosthetics & Orthotics- 

• Bachelor Training Programme in Prosthetics & Orthotics   (4 & 1/2 Years )

• Diploma in Prosthetics and Orthotics  (3Years )

• Lower Limb Orthotics  (18 Months )

• Lower Limb Prosthetics  (18 Months )

 All the training programmes follow the WHO guidelines for training personnel in developing countries and have the necessary recognition and affiliations from bodies like Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences(RGUHS), Rehabilitation Council of India(RCI)  & International Society for Prosthestics & Orthotics(ISPO)