Message from the Editor

Requests for hardcopies of ORTHOLETTER continue to come to us from those in industrialized countries via e-mail. I should remind everyone that ORTHOLETTER is only mailed as a hardcopy to those working or residing in low-income countries. For those who reside in industrialized countries, the policy of ISPO is that those individuals can download the PDF version available from our website or view it via their web browser directly from the internet. As there is no advertising in ORTHOLETTER, the costs have to be completely covered by the organization and therefore postal costs must be kept within budgetary constraints. Again our website address is ­ home.ica.net/~cocinc/Ortholet.html.

Our website has seen a reasonable amount of activity since we started keeping statistics on how often our home page was viewed. We have had over 1000 hits to our homepage since March 1st and about 300 hits to our page showing pictures and video of the plastic reinforcing techniques explained in the article on Plastic Architecture in the December 2002 issue. I hope the website will continue to develop and complement the printed issues. For this issue we will show more details of the fabrication procedure for the knee disarticulation prosthesis article on page 1.

Please continue to submit articles, comments, and feedback. We need your support!

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Dan Blocka, Editor
Prosthetic & Orthotic Educational Programs, George Brown College,
The Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Science Centre,
c/o SCIL, 2075 Bayview Ave., Toronto, ON, CANADA, M4N 3M5,
e-mail - blocka@ispo.ws fax- 416-480-5975

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