Prosthetics

The delegation had a tour in the departments of the Military Medical Services and Life Gate Foundation and watched how artificial limbs are being made and how to deal with people in need for those parts. In addition, the delegation discussed how to exchange experiences in this field especially that Arab American University will be finishing soon from building the largest laboratory to manufacture of artificial limbs in Palestine in order to train the students of the department and fulfill the needs of the artificial limbs in Palestine.

This program enables its graduates to diagnose the needs of prostheses and orthotics, and to engineer these organs according to each case, based on the knowledge and understanding of the principles of mechanical motion, human body surgery, engineering technology drawings, the designing electronic robotics and manufacturing them in factories, laboratories and clinics provided by the University in order to train the students, and welcoming patients with upper and lower amputations, patients with musculoskeletal disorders, fractures, bone malformations, paralysis of the central nervous system