Prosthetics

The meeting included an introductory tour of the largest and only prosthetics and orthotics factory in the Middle East, which is concerned with the field of manufacturing and providing high-quality limbs at the national and regional levels, due to the factory’s distinction in employing modern technology in this field, which contributes fundamentally to facilitating the daily life of patients who have lost one of their limbs.

Mohamed Salahat, a lecturer in the Department of Occupational Therapy at the Arab American University, and Dr. Mitchell Wiley from the Department of Physical Therapy at Shenandoah University delivered a lecture. This lecture comes within the ongoing partnership project between the two universities, within the COIL program, which aims to exchange experiences between academics and students from both universities.

In one of the laboratories, the engineer and the technician are checking the devices and tools after installing them, in another lab, a technician is installing devices, and in the third lab you can hear the sound of devices working. On the entrance of the laboratory, workers are moving the rest of the tools and devices to the inside of the factory; the place is like a beehive that is working to prepare the opening of the factory as soon as possible.