Table of Contents

AUTHORS’ APPOINTMENTS.

1. INTRODUCTION, Christopher Morris.

2. BIOMECHANICAL PRINCIPLES, Christopher Morris.

3. ASSESSMENT, Christopher Morris, Nicholas Gryfakis, Michael El-Shammaa and Luciano Dias.

4. MATERIALS, COMPONENTS AND FABRICATION, Christopher Morris.

5. UPPER-LIMB ORTHOSES, Nicole Parent-Weiss.

6. LOWER-LIMB ORTHOSES, Christopher Morris.

7. CONGENITAL DEFORMITIES, Christopher Morris and Luciano Dias.

8. CONDITIONS ARISING IN CHILDHOOD, Christopher Morris and Luciano Dias.

9. CEREBRAL PALSY, Christopher Morris.

10. MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES, SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHIES AND PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHIES, Nicola Thompson, Steve Porter and Christopher Morris.

11. MYELOMENINGOCOELE, Brigid Driscoll, Robert Novak and Luciano Dias.

12. IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS, Paul Horwood.

13. PROTECTIVE AND CORRECTIVE HEADWEAR, Sheila Kellner and Trevor da Silva

About the Author

Christopher Morris M.Sc. D.Phil. is a Principal Orthotist at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and a MRC Special Training Fellow in Health Services Research in the Department of Public Health at the University of Oxford; and a Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. Chris has 20 years experience working as an orthotist. After initially training and working with his father in London he came to work at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. He was involved in establishing the Oxford Gait Laboratory, and has been awarded Masters and Doctoral degrees by the University of Oxford. Chris is the current Chairman of the Trustees for the Orthotic Education and Training Trust in the UK and a member of the editorial board of Mac Keith Press

Orthopaedic Editor: Luciano S. Dias M.D. - Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Northwestern University & Medical Director, Motion Analysis Center, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, USA