Something we look forward to every summer is the teaching we do with the University of Maryland Physical Therapy students. Usually, we start the week off by inviting the class to our Baltimore Washington office, where they attend lectures in our conference room, visit with patients who come to demonstrate their prostheses and orthoses in action, and visit our fabrication lab to see fabrication techniques and materials. This program had been held virtually due to COVID and we were looking forward to welcoming the students back to our facility this year!

The day before we were to host this amazing group, we lost our power. It was such a disappointment to all to have to cancel the session in our office. Tuesday, teaching resumed at the University for the rest of the week, where Mark Hopkins, PT, CPO, MBA and Angie Bryl, CPO, MBA were joined by other Dankmeyer staff Rochelle Dumm, CPO, Cole Branche, Resident Prosthetist Orthotist, and Jamie Dean, Patient Services Coordinator. A number of patient volunteers came to give these students a close look at their physical therapy and rehabilitative needs.

We are grateful to be able to participate in the education of these students, as they will work with us and other practitioners over the course of their careers serving those who wear orthoses, and those in the limb loss and limb difference community.