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# Competences — prosthetist-orthotist
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/929b5c9d-2fbf-44f2-980d-2ac6c0dc212f).
## Essential
- **adhere to organisational guidelines** (skill/competence)
- **advise on rehabilitation exercises** (skill/competence)
- **answer patients' questions** (skill/competence)
- **archive healthcare users' records** (skill/competence)
- **biomechanics** (knowledge)
- **collect healthcare user's general data** (skill/competence)
- **communicate in healthcare** (skill/competence)
- **comply with legislation related to health care** (skill/competence)
- **comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice** (skill/competence)
- **contribute to continuity of health care** (skill/competence)
- **contribute to the rehabilitation process** (skill/competence)
- **create lifecasts** (skill/competence)
- **design medical supportive devices** (skill/competence)
- **ensure safety of healthcare users** (skill/competence)
- **human anatomy** (knowledge)
- **instruct patients on supportive devices** (skill/competence)
- **interact with healthcare users** (skill/competence)
- **kinetics** (knowledge)
- **listen actively** (skill/competence)
- **modify lifecasts** (skill/competence)
- **prosthetic devices** (knowledge)
- **record healthcare users' progress related to treatment** (skill/competence)
- **rehabilitation** (knowledge)
## Optional
- assist patients with rehabilitation (skill/competence)
- develop therapeutic relationships (skill/competence)
- finish prosthetic-orthotic devices (skill/competence)
- first aid (knowledge)
- human physiology (knowledge)
- hygiene in a health care setting (knowledge)
- identify patients' medical records (skill/competence)
- maintain prosthetic-orthotic devices (skill/competence)
- manipulate plastic (skill/competence)
- manipulate prosthetic-orthotic device materials (skill/competence)
- manipulate wood (skill/competence)
- medical informatics (knowledge)
- medical terminology (knowledge)
- modify casts for prostheses (skill/competence)
- orthopaedic conditions (knowledge)
- orthopaedic goods industry (knowledge)
- orthopaedics (knowledge)
- orthotics (knowledge)
- pathology (knowledge)
- pedorthics (knowledge)
- perform a prosthetic examination of the patient (skill/competence)
- place orders for orthopedic products (skill/competence)
- prosthetic-orthotic device materials (knowledge)
- provide health education (skill/competence)
- recommend orthopedic goods to customers depending on their condition (skill/competence)
- recommend orthotic devices (skill/competence)
- record data from biomedical tests (skill/competence)
- repair orthopedic goods (skill/competence)
- repair prosthetic-orthotic devices (skill/competence)
- respond to changing situations in health care (skill/competence)
- test prosthetic-orthotic devices (skill/competence)
- types of orthopedic supplies (knowledge)
- use e-health and mobile health technologies (skill/competence)
- work in multidisciplinary health teams (skill/competence)
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## Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 16 ads, as of 2026-07-19)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
### Hard skills
- orthotic design — **50 %**
- prosthetic design — **50 %**
- patient assessment — **38 %**
- patient evaluation — **38 %**
- patient care — **31 %**
- treatment planning — **25 %**
- prosthesis design — **19 %**
- device fabrication — **19 %**
- gait analysis — **19 %**
- materials management — **19 %**
### Responsibilities
- device fitting — **31 %**
- follow-up care — **25 %**
- patient instruction — **25 %**
- patient assessment — **25 %**
- physician collaboration — **19 %**
- treatment implementation — **19 %**
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