{"id":344627,"date":"2025-10-19T09:56:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/an-appointment-with-the-ortho-a-users-guide-so-you-dont-get-lost\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T09:56:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:56:41","slug":"an-appointment-with-the-ortho-a-users-guide-so-you-dont-get-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ora-visio.com\/en\/an-appointment-with-the-ortho-a-users-guide-so-you-dont-get-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"An appointment with the \u201cortho\u201d: a user’s guide so you don’t get lost"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waiting room of a medical centre. One sentence flies, and it’s the start of a misunderstanding.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

“- Jules has started seeing the ortho.<\/span>
\n<\/span> – Oh really, does he have eyesight problems?<\/span>
\n<\/span> – No, no, the speech therapist!”<\/span><\/p>\n

And there you have it: a simple conversation can quickly turn into a medical guessing game. Speech therapist (orthophonist), orthoptist, orthodontist, orthopedagogue\u2026 It’s as if every health profession agreed to share the same prefix (<\/span>ortho<\/span><\/i>!). Indeed, behind the prefix <\/span>ortho-<\/span><\/i>, several very different health professions are hiding: <\/span><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udf00 The “ortho” jungle<\/b><\/h3>\n

To stop mixing them up, here’s a little survival guide:<\/span><\/p>\n