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College of Health and Social Care

One of the North West's largest providers of Health and Social Care courses

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Prosthetics & Orthotics Lab

As a highly specialised profession, we aim to provide you with the latest tools and facilities that will enhance your personal development.

Prosthetics & Orthotics LabStudents of Prosthetics and Orthotics are taught hands-on clinical practice while dealing with patients in our custom-designed clinic rooms.

Further practice is undertaken in our workshops which boasts a well-equipped machine room with CADCAM facilities and the plaster room where impressions of patients' anatomy can be modified for the subsequent manufacture of custom-made prostheses or orthoses.

Undergraduate students have the opportunity to conduct motion analysis in one of 3 movement laboratories. Postgraduate students also carry out work on research towards their Master or Doctorate degrees.

Prosthetics & Orthotics LabIf you are interested in hiring these facilities, then please contact us by email or call 0845 234 0184.