Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children Expands Prosthetics Lab

Aug. 19, 2008 - PRLog -- Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children's in-house Prosthetics department makes custom prostheses to treat each child’s individual needs. The department provides on-site services for TSRHC patients, and to enhance these services, TSRHC added a new lab to its Prosthetics department.

The new lab occupies 2,100 square feet of a one-story building adjacent to the parking garage on hospital grounds and provides the hospital’s staff of registered prosthetic technicians with a new work space in which to form, shape and laminate various prosthetic devices for patients.

The lab provides additional room to accommodate state-of-the-art equipment, such as a Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD) machine that will enable prosthetists to automate the design of custom prostheses using 3-D images.

"It's wonderful that our technicians have additional work space with new equipment that will help them continue to make custom prostheses to meet the needs of our individual patients," said Don Cummings, CL (LP), director of Prosthetics at TSRHC. "We are so thankful to the M.S. Doss Foundation for their support of our new Prosthetics lab."

The expansion of the Prosthetics department is part of the hospital’s ongoing renovation project and was made possible by a gift from the M.S. Doss Foundation.

ABOUT TSRHC:
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children is one of the nation's leading pediatric centers for the treatment of orthopedic conditions, certain related neurological disorders and learning disorders, such as dyslexia. There is no charge to patient families for treatment at the hospital, and admission is open to Texas children from birth to 18 years of age. For more information, to volunteer or to make a donation, please call (214) 559-5000 or (800) 421-1121 or visit www.tsrhc.org.