Spotlight:
NOPCO Brace Shop
October 2003
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Jim Wynne, director of Prosthetics at NOPCO, says the goal with children is to make sure that normal development isn’t hindered by the prosthesis. |
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NOPCO Brace Shop has been providing support to Children’s patients
for over 30 years. The shop, an independently-owned tenant on the Children’s
campus, specializes in making orthotics (such as spinal supports for children
with scoliosis and cranial helmets for babies whose heads become misshapen)
and prosthetic limbs.
The shop has locations across Massachusetts and beyond, including one on Fegan 3 and another on Brookline Avenue. It was started in 1972 by former orthhopaedic surgeon-in-chief Jonathan Hall and Bill Miller, whose son Rusty runs the business today.
Prosthetics and orthotics must be light, flexible, durable and replaceable in order to keep growing children active. “We want them to keep the prosthetic on all the time,” says Jim Wynne, the shop’s director of Prosthetics. “So we try to make them as comfortable and as tailored to each individual as possible.”
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