Year: 2009

Companies considering downsizing as a strategy for surviving the current economic recession should know one thing about the experience that many companies had with downsizing: It did not work. “Research shows that downsizing very seldom works,” Clint Chadwick, PhD, an…

Following the party shift, an active year for health care policy is expected.

After an explosion in Iraq left him with little more than his torso, Brian Kolfage worked with the Hanger team to become independent again.

WWP and ACA Train Military Amputee Peer Visitors Disability Rights Legal Center Honors Ossur WWP and ACA Train Military Amputee Peer Visitors   © 2008/Corbis Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) and the Amputee Coalition of America (ACA) have expanded the Military…

As the O&P profession looks to the future, it is plain to see that green is the new hot color. In 2002, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) hosted little more than 4,000 attendees at its first Green Building Conference.…

There are big changes coming for the future of O&P technicians.

CMS releases additional clarification on exemptions and said pedorthists are now required to apply for accreditation by January 31.

First-Ever Paralympic Biathlon Program Created Penn State Program to Help Wounded Warriors First-Ever Paralympic Biathlon Program Created U.S. Paralympics and U.S. Biathlon recently announced a partnership to create the first Paralympic Biathlon program in the United States. Paralympic biathlon athletes…

Type 1 diabetes and celiac disease appear to share a common genetic origin, scientists at the University of Cambridge and Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry have confirmed. Their findings, reported recently in the New England Journal…

If getting into shape is on your New Year’s resolution list but you are not interested in navigating jam-packed gyms, take your exercise regime out of the gym and into the great outdoors. “A common misconception is that you have…