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- Join me as a I shadow Wendy, a resident orthotist for the day! You'll see the workshop, learn about foot orthotics, scoliosis braces, AFOs (ankle foot orthoses), HKAFO (hip knee ankle foot orthoses) and even corrective helmets for babies!
PLUS I actually get an assessment of my feet and have orthotics casted on film!
HUGE THANK YOU to Wendy, the entire prosthetics and orthotics department for collaborating on this video!! I had such an incredible day and now I know what goes into creating custom orthotics!
Correction: Emma is a university student, working in an assistive role, not a registered technician as labeled in the video.
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Can you do a short follow-up when you get your foot orthotics? I would love to hear your thoughts on how they affect your walking and if your ankles feel better after having them for a while. You do so much walking around the hospital, my guess is that you'll notice a difference just in everyday life. I loved watching the process of how they are made.
Great suggestion - thanks!
Yes please! I’d love to see your finished orthotics after seeing how they’re made.🙂
Also,
I’m sure you got this totally covered, and it feels a little silly to ask this of a rheumatologist-
but: there’s no way your joint pain hiking is anything more than structural + activity, right? No chance of anything like a tick borne illness causing joint issues... ok probably not. Sorry, I live with chronic symptoms from Lyme diagnosed too late, so it’s kinda my soapbox.
Not asking you to share your health info of course, just wanted to mention.
Love your videos as always!
Unfortunately this was a bust for me as orthotics and orthotic devices are very uninteresting to me when it comes for my passion for medicine.
At first I thought this said “Shadowing an Orthodontist” and I was like, “Well this is different…” 😂
Same lol.
I'd argue shadowing an orthotist is more different, we're such a small field, especially here in Australia
Me too lol
Yeah, I was slightly confused at first, lol
Same and I was like why is she holding a boot thing?
Thank you for bringing more light to the field! I'm a resident orthotist prosthetist at the moment and just took my first written boards. It's a very fun job!
Where did you take the course?
that was so interesting. it shows the wider veriety of job skills needed.
My daughter gets her new set of AFO’s this week. She’s worn them since 3 months old. From smo’s to AFO’s and she loves her new pattern. Unicorns ice cream and donuts 🥰. I love seeing the process.
awww that sounds like the cutest pattern!! adorable!! 🥰
Really wait a minute doesn't she have CJS
@@ViolinMD could you shadow a social worker or physcatrist
Those sound so cute and pretty! What a great choice!
This is SO COOL! When I’ve seen orthotists at work on my orthopaedics rotation in med school, the craft and skill behind it amaze me! Thank you for making these life-changing devices for patients! 😊
As someone with Spina Bifida and Scoliosis, who has worn several of the types of braces shown in this video, it was really cool to see you talk about them!
Same! I have both. I am currently waiting on my new set of leg braces but taking longer then expected to manufacture
Same! As someone who has had scoliosis for nine years, it was so interesting to see how my back braces were made
I also have spina bifida and scoliosis.
I have Spina Bifida too (but not scoliosis) my eyes popped open when she specifically mentioned SB
I also have both! Was also born with an uneven pelvis
I have always wonder how these are actually fitted to the patients. I have been helping my students to wear these, It’s cool to see how different afo are made! Love these “shadowing” series! Keep up the great work!
I was born with Cerebral Palsy, have been wearing AFO’s since I could walk. Thank you for showing the process. I went to a specialist laboratory to correct my gait (gait lab). Thank you for sharing the process.
I have it too. I ended up going to physical therapy for 10 years. I started walking at 8
I also have been wearing AFOs since I was able to walk as well. I have spastic hemiplegia cerebral palsy. I see an orthotist for mine as the AFOs I needed had to be articulated because of having foot drop. I started walking at the age of 4.
Thank you for sharing - i'm so glad you found the process interesting, especially having such personal experience with AFOs!
I also have CP, I wore AFOs from the age of 2 and 1/2 or 3 quit wearing them all together at 16. I remember when I couldn't even choose a color. Most of my AFOs were white.
I have CP as well, I wore one until I was about 12, then my dr did surgery so I wouldn’t have to wear it and now they are trying to get me back in one! NO THANK U!!!!!!
I enjoy this series so much!!!! So interesting to learn about different medical professionals with your trademark respect and curiosity, Siobhan!
I was born with Spina Bifida and have always wondered how this whole process worked since I have warn AFO's my whole life. This was very interesting to watch
I wish I had half the joy Siobhan clearly has every day
My toddler is getting a pair next week that go just above his ankle for more support. This is actually a bit comforting knowing how it's made. Thanks for the video!!
I'm so glad to hear that - best of luck with the upcoming fitting!
I hope the fitting went well! I wore AFOs to right below my knees from toddler to 11 years old because of Spina Bifida.
I'm in my last year of studying before becoming an orthotist and I think you have covered it pretty well! I'm definitely going to show this video if someone asks what I do!😊
How is it that I've never thought about people who specialize in orthotics?! So interesting! Thank you, Siobahn!
So true, i think it's an overlooked specialty with so much value to add!
My stepdad was a wheelchair specialist in Belgium. During a come along in the company he worked at, I always found it super fascinating how they made so many different orthotics and how it could change someone's life. 6 years later, and I officially have my bachelor degree in orthopedics. Now I am the one changing people's lives with orthotics and prosthetics.
@@SolemnnSolace congrats! I hope to be there one day!
I love this series, could you shadow a pathologist or possibly a medical laboratory technologist? Im majoring i MLS and people dont really know we exist or what we do
At my job my boss works part time as a med lab tech for a 2nd job. All they do is draw blood with needles and package it for the lab. You may if your lucky get to play with the machines but chances are your stabbing people
@@Sabi1234567890Asdf Lab techs and Lab technologists/MLS are different. Lab techs are mostly drawing the specimens but MLS does the analysis on them and provide lab values and results
Great ideas Kaloji - thank you i'll add it to the growing list!!
@@ViolinMD Your graduation in June is way too close to fit all the ideas in, right?
@@Sabi1234567890Asdf a medical technologist is different from a *technician* , who is called a "lab tech"
I wore an AFO for most of my childhood (tibial dysplasia from neurofibromatosis) and I got really close with my orthotist over the years! I loved getting to pick a new pattern or picture (although there were definitely fewer choices 15 years ago...) and remember being taken back into the workshop area to see how it was done. Super cool video!
That was (as always) so interesting and well explained!
The new hairstyle looks great too ;)
Thanks Maru!
This was so cool! As an engineer, I've seen some of those fabrication processes, but not for medical devices. I would love for you to do a part 2 where you shadow a prosthetist.
As a orthotist and a prothésist myself, I can say that they are not that different. You still take a plaster mold and just do a lamination after the plaster correction. The hardest part of prosthetics is choosing the right parts and linking them up correctly!
@SolemnnSolace exactly. Lock system or straps... we use the bulldog lock types for most.. AKs are the toughest and usually get the strap type. BKs can choose either or...
This is so awesome! I love that you're showing the world the rest of the healthcare team!
If you ever have the time/ability/interest, shadowing a Social Worker would be neat too!
Absolutely - in the process of organizing something with social work as we speak!
So fascinating! My sister wore a scoliosis brace for 3 years, but ended up having corrective surgery. It was so tough on her; 23 hours per day of wear in grades 7-9. I wish it had worked for her as the surgery is no joke. I'm glad that there are professionals like Wendy and her colleagues out there making life better for so many people!
Thanks for sharing this, Siobhan. I would love to see more about the allied health professionals -- dentists in hospital, MAiD workers, midwives, RDs. It's really very interesting.
Love this series! Can I add another profession (audiologist) to your list?
Thank You for the videos❤️
When I was 15 I had two stress fractures in my lumbar spine and I had to wear a back brace for a year. After watching through this video I was blown away at how much goes into creating one of these braces/orthotics! Very interesting!
So cool to see the behind the scenes of this. I’ve been on the receiving end of afo’s and kafo’s due to spina bifida as well. October is actually spina bifida awareness month! Great video.
I also have had to wear a back brace for scoliosis before. Didn’t have it too bad though
I wear an articulated AFO on my left leg for foot drop caused by having spastic hemiplegia cerebral palsy. It’s really cool that we get a behind the scenes look at how our different types of braces are made.
Fantastic video! Also, you cut your hair!! It looks sooo good!
Thanks Sarah! Feels like such a change and I love it!
I wasn't as interested in ortho before but after seeing this , it looks really interesting. Thank you for making these videos it really helps!
I’m a resident orthotist in the States right now. Thank you for using your platform to educate about this field! It’s super cool to see!
I’m doing my pre reqs for orthotic technician, any advice for me? Thank you!
From age 1 or so until 38, I wore a KAFO brace. My right leg was shorter than left by 2”. I was also born without a tibia. At 38, I had my leg amputated below know and now wear a prosthetic with Snoopy design as seen in my profile pic.
This video was so cool! I’ve dealt with orthotics quite a bit over the course of my life. I was born with Spina Bifida, so it was so cool to hear one of the cases was a boy with Spina Bifida. 😊 Also, this was a timely video, because October is Spina Bifida Awareness Month. 😊
I have a question for you, so say if your on a night shift and you get paged while your asleep and you don’t hear it and sleep through it what would happen?
I was born with Spina Bifida and Scoliosis. When I was a child, I had to wear a scoliosis brace after spinal surgery to try and correct the spinal curvature. Very uncomfortable at times
Hey Siobhan - I'm a Paramedic Practitioner from the north of the UK, I work as a Frailty Specialist across both the ED and Frailty Units. I don't know if you have any similar specialist Paramedic Roles in the US but I would be really interested in seeing you show a different perspective to Paramedics as AHPs.
I had an AFO where I could still move my ankles. It helped me a lot, psychically but also mentally. It’s really nice to see the process
I’m going to be honest here, I never really thought or knew much about braces until now, also I love it that when Siobhan said that patients could choose which patters they wanted in their own braces!! That is a delightful surprise!! I also really liked it when Siobhan got to make a brace herself, that was awesome!!! (Just to be clear, I’m not talking about when she got casted for a brace), as one final mention I thought is was extremely cool 😎 to see that for the metal supports for a brace that they use static electricity ⚡️ to essentially ZAP! ⚡️the color into it!! That part made my jaw drop!!! Anyway to anyone who just to happens to read this to the end, thank you for reading and have a absolutely wonderful day or night, depending on when you read this comment!! 😎
I've had anything from jeans pattern to neon green
I wore AFOs as a kid and choosing the pattern made the appointment not as dreadful.
I have scoliosis and ive had 2 back braces. It's so cool to see how theyre actually made!
I am currently in a doctor of physical therapy program and would love to see you shadow a physical therapist!!
My daughter and I been watching since you had 15 thousand followers I’m extremely proud and happy of what you have done. You still inspire my daughter thank you be safe 😊🙏🏽
Please do ‘shadowing an occupational therapist’ as a budding occupational therapist, this would be really helpful
Loved the video 😀
yes please
Wendy is my son's orthodist!! She is going to be casting him next week!!!
I love this shadowing series! It really shines light on very underrepresented careers that all have a huge affect on patient care. Keep up the good work doctor😊
Do they make artifical limbs too? I would be interested in seeing the process.
That’s actually the topic of my next video!!
@@ViolinMD I look forward to it.
This was absolutely fascinating. An area of medicine I knew nothing about at all. I really enjoy your 'day with...' series. As a patient under a number of different specialties, I think it's great to see doctors interested in improving the interconnectivity of medicine
I hope you shadow a prosthetist. I've been an amputee for 48 years and have had a lot of different prosthetists, and the one I have now works out of Salem, Or. And she is the best I've ever had.
This is so cool! I wear a TLSO for my spine (I have moderate scoliosis and spondylolythesis that causes some pain and also caused the curve) It’s really cool to see how it was made (although I wasn’t casted- I had a scan done!)! Orthotists are really important-I’m so grateful for the work mine has done to keep my spine straight and to keep me from being in pain like I was before, although I can’t wait to get rid of my brace… 😂 Thanks for showing us how it all works!
Omg good on you for getting orthotics! I have plantarfisciiti (i totally did not spell that right!🤣🤣) and it is soooo painful now! And we just can't get my orthotics right! Going back in a week and hopefully my orthotics don't give me blisters this time!🤞🤞🤞
Years ago my back ligaments got stretched out or something. I was just in pain and sent to an orthotist. He determined all I needed was a corset. He had a huge catalog of corsets and together we picked one out. Synthetic fabrics tend to give me rashes so I wanted an all cotton corset. He ordered it and once it arrived I returned. He had it so tight on me I couldn't breath, so I loosened it. Took months but eventually I no longer needed to wear it. Still have it in storage. Wearing that thing made me understand how hard it was for women who wore corsets as normal wear. I really couldn't get much oxygen in my lungs the first day I wore it.
I have Scoliosis and we don't know what has caused mine. I had to have back surgery to fix mine.
I have spina bifida too but I hated wearing my braces when I was little I stopped wanting to walk with them because they hurt me so bad. I now work in orthotics and prosthetics purchasing department at one of the local hospitals in Michigan.
Me being the dumb*** I am and think it’s “Day In The Life Of A Orthodontist”.
Thank you for being there to help people during this hard time with covid and I don’t know how you also have the time to record but are amazing.
I have spina bifida and I'm nine I have had braces and afos beacause i walked on my heels .
but I got a surgery so I didn't walk on my heels anymore
I had to wear a helmet when I was a baby because I had a flat head. I don’t have my helmet anymore, but it was yellow with a bunch of Winnie the Pooh stickers on it.
Love it when Canadians remind us they are not Americans. “Came out well eh”
I have scoliosis and I had my surgery about 1 year ago, it was so cool to see the brace they were. Talking about but because they said how much they wanted me to wear it we went with surgery.
I have started my college course for advance paramedic in Ireland can wait for the goods to happen
Keep going with this series! It’s so great!! :)
I love your videos I am in tenth grade, and I have been wanting to be a doctor for a couple of years and also I am subscribed
My daughter has Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita. She wears AFOs, has a cranial helmet, and will be getting elbow/hand bracing soon. I enjoyed seeing the process, cause she will be living in bracing. I hope orthotists know how much people like us love and appreciate them. ♡♡♡
Loving this series! It's so interesting and you are such a wonderful storyteller.
As someone who used afos this is so cool to see how they make the hinge part. I gave had at least 10 afos. Wore them for 14 years of my life and they usually lasted 1 year ish.
I love your videos (I'm using my mom's account cuz I don't have one)
I bet they do a lot of braces of all kinds for patients with EDS too
I have EDS and have AFO’s and wrist orthotics to sleep in.
In the day time I have a different AFO for my left leg, a full leg calliper for my right leg and wrist braces. I can swap out my wrist braces for different kinds depending on which joint is the most unstable at the time, and I have ring splints for all my finger joints.
I also have soft orthotics for my hips, shoulders and jaw and a neck brace.
I love the orthotics team, and know most of them at my local hospital, I wouldn’t be able to live independently without them!
I love videos like this, the medical field is so vast I love seeing all the different specialties I didn’t even know existed
I loved this insight into a less well known part of healthcare! I considered Orthotics and Prosthetics as a career option at one point but I ended up taking a different path in life. I became interested in it throughout the process of getting measured and fitted for the Milwaukee Brace that I wore as a teenager. I have kyphosis due to Scheuermann's Disease. Even though it was definitely not fun the brace made a big difference and while I do still have some problems with my back, I have never needed surgery which is probably partly because of the brace. When I got mine (about 25 years ago) it was a much thicker looking plastic material and there were definitely no fun patterns to choose from! So it's interesting to see how new material technologies have changed the options for orthotic users. The brace shown here looks like it would be a lot lighter and cooler to wear which hopefully makes it easier on the kids who need them. Thanks for this video :)
As an ortho and prosthetic tech, i loved this video. My job doesn't pay super well, but helping people, many of whom are vets, is super rewarding and outweighs everything else. Xoxox. ❤❤
I'm an apprentice and I honestly love this career, making things by hand, helping people, no stress or bs, and generally attracts great ppl
This was a really cool video to watch! These videos you create will inspire so many to go into fields like these! Thank you for shining some light on things like this!
I love your videos you seam so nice your so positive and beautiful ❤️
I have Spina Bifida and have been wearing AFO's almost my whole life (I am 25 now). So cool to see a behind-the-scenes look at how they are made and the process of what happens before they get to me! Thanks for making this video, Siobhan!
✝️ I am blessed to have and wear my ankle foot 👣 orthotic on my right leg due to drop foot and peripheral neuropathy!!💙 I now walk with both feet forward and don't fall down anymore!!✌️(Physical balance is important) #davesandersstepdaughter
This truly is an art form 💜
I have AFOs because I have Spina Bifida
Wow this was awesome! I had no idea what all went into makeing one.
Thank you for sharing your experiences as a doctor! It's so cool to watch!! :)
this is honestly really cool. i might need one if these in the future for my back cuz i have mild scoliosis, which gets progressively worse over time. it’s fine now, but like i said may get worse. thanks for showing us this and educating us, God bless ❤️
This is so interesting!!! Thanks for bringing us too😄😍
Please show a day of physiotherapists ❤️
I love your doctor shadows videos! So cool to learn about different medical professions!
Would you shadow a clinical biochemist/microbiologist/hospital laboratory staff?
I am a molecular biologist but don't work in a hospital setting. It would be great to see your take on this, hospital laboratories are very behind the scenes :)
She was such a natural on camera 🤗!! My son had a helmet, they were so precise when making it 💚
I have Spina Bifida and have worn AFOs since I was a kid. Ive now switched to wearing KAFOs with a straight locking hinge. This was really interesting to watch!
I have worn ankle foot orthotics (AFOs) Both solid and hinged or knee ankle foot orthotics (KAFOs) since I was 6 months! :). Thanks for sharing this super cool.
Hello, my name is Savannah Kelly. I wear AFOs leg braces because I am. I have a condition with.Cerebral palsy
I was born with Spina Bifida and I use to hate getting fitted for the hip leg and ankle braces
I used to crave gingerbread from my technician
As a current orthotics and prosthetics resident, I LOVE THIS!!! My masters thesis is on interdisciplinary healthcare teams and this just proves how important the collaboration and education of other professions is!!! THANK YOU FOR THIS ❤️❤️
So true I've noticed orthotics and prosthetics are very team oriented
watching her doing jobs just making me to be a doctor in future.........dont stop making videos really love this!!!!!!!!
Wondering if these Would help me I Have Hypotonia , Both my FEET and Legs HURT Alot , During the Day As I'm getting Older I Just turned 30 Year's old ? I've Never had a Pair of these AFO's Before in my life ? . . . .
As an Orthotist myself I LOVE this video! No one really knows what we do so this was a great insight! :)
LOVED this video!! What a fastinating specialty!
5 minutes into the video and I have to pause and pick my jaw up off the floor. I have spina bifida (myelomeningolocele specifically) This is so cool getting to see this, thank you!!!
So cool!! Know about orthotics/prosthetics but never knew how they were made!! Thanks for showing this!!! Excellent!!
Good Morning!!
I'm in MB & jus started watching your videos. I'm 42 with spina bifida & hydrocephalus. I've been wearing AFO's since I was 2yrs old 🙂
Have you ever thought about shadowing in Endocrinology? Type 1 diabetic here 🙋 would love to see that video! Much love ❤️
Im glad myHealth insurance pays for 2 Orthestic inlays for my shoes per Year . I would be in such pain without them.I found great Company in my Town who makes them im very happy with work for Years. Since they add Cabon Fibres they extremly stable soft and light . Very needed because im a heavy person. They scan your feets with gigantic Flatbead Scanner where you stand on and they make a perfect 3 D scan of your feets. This Method is cheaper, cleaner and highly effective. The Inlays are lasercut so very precise. Since they use this instead of the foam steping Method i never had issues again
This may be my favorite video you’ve done. Maybe because I work in the dental field & we do a lot of same(ish) types of impressions etc but on a much smaller scale. Very interesting. Thank you!
You should shadow OT/PT/SLP! Rehab staff have recently got more publicity for our role in helping COVID patients in their recovery, but we touch EVERY floor of the hospital from NICU to oncology!
I WANT TO BE A PHYSIATRIST, and working with pain medicine and orthodics are some of my biggest interests
My mom had a stroke and had to wear an afo on her paralyzed side so this was so interesting to see this
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Thanx this is super interesting
I think you should shadow a physical therapist next! As a therapist myself, I think it would be great for others to see what we do!
I was born with spina bifida and had to wear AFOs when I was a child. Every year or so, we had to travel from northern Ontario to Toronto to at was then in the eighties called the Ontario Crippled Children's Centre. They had an out-patient motel there where would stay. While my upper body grew, my legs did not so I needed more assistance that the AFOs alone could provide. I now get about in an electric wheelchair.
I NEVER miss any of your vids. Very cool and informative. Thank you !!