Welcome to the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO) Canada web site. From this page, you can access general information on the ISPO, membership information, ISPO objectives and strategies, and current information relevant to Canadian ISPO members.
New ISPO Information Brochure
Click here to see the new ISPO information brochure.
ISPO 2010 World Congress in Leipzip, Germany
Congratulations to the organizers of the ISPO 2010 World Congress in Leipzig, Germany. The event was very successful with over 2600 delegates. Canada was well represented by delegates, scientific presentations, ISPO board activities, and industry.
- Click here for a picture of the two delegates sponsored by ISPO Canada to present at ISPO 2010 (left to right: Edward Lemaire, ISPO Canada; James Christensen, Sponsored Canada Student; Steve Hale, ISPO Canada; Hortensia Mallya, Sponsored Delegate from Tanzania; Patrick Lebel, ISPO Canada)
- Click here for a picture of many of the Canadian delegates
- Click here to download abstracts from the congress
ISPO Canada Symposium - October 22-24, 2009
The 2009 Symposium, "Prosthetics and Orthotics Care for People with Diabetes", was held in Toronto, Ontario on the Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre Campus in October 2009. Thank you to all presenters, delegates, exhibitors, sponsors, and organizers for making this event a success.
Clifford Chadderton Award for Prosthetic and Orthotic Research
Congratulations to Kim Parker, recipient of the 2009 Clifford Chadderton Award for Prosthetic and Orthotic Research. The next competition will be in 2011, check the web site for details.
ISPO International Web Site Change
The ISPO International web site is now located at www.ispoint.org.
ICRC Manufacturing Guidelines Now Available On-line
The ICRC manuals for polypropylene technology are now available on their web site.
Revisions to the Prosthetics and Orthotics Lexicon
The P&O Lexicon/Dictionary is an on-line tool for looking up definitions from over 1,000 clinical, technical and biomechanical terms. We are completing integration of ISO Standard Terminology into the database. A new interface should be online by the end of 2009 with easy identification of international standard terminology.
Prosthetics and Orthotics International
Prosthetics and Orthotics International, the official journal of ISPO, is published by Taylor & Francis. Institutional subscriptions include on-line access, with full-text articles available as Acrobat (PDF) files.