Gait analysis is a necessary and important part of the overall lower limb patient evaluation. If done properly, gait analysis can reveal nuances of patient ambulation otherwise unseen to the naked eye, according to Seamus Kennedy, CPed, owner of Hersco…
Year: 2010
Material Data Safety Sheets: A Practical Risk Management Tool
Material Safety Data Sheets should include detailed product information
of hazardous chemicals from air fresheners to acetones.
Breast Cancer Treatment Headed for a Hopeful Future
Throughout the course of his career, Kenneth D. Miller, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Yale University, has watched the evolution of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. He remembers a time when many women received diagnoses of advanced stages of…
Engineers Use Nanowires to Create Artificial E-Skin
Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a pressure-sensitive electronic material from semiconductor nanowires that could potentially be applied to robotic or prosthetic hands, according to Kuniharu Takei, post-doctoral fellow in electrical engineering and computer sciences. …
The Trailblazer
CAF athlete Desmond Jackson is hoping to duplicate last year’sperformance at the San Diego Triathlon Challenge.
Grant Funding Will Advance Development of More Comfortable Prostheses
Researchers from the University of Utah Department of Orthopedics and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) will use a $3 million grant from the U.S. Defense Department to develop an intelligent prosthetic implant that will allow for a more comfortable and infection-free…
PECOS and Health Care Reform Highlight Top Ten Medicare Changes
ORLANDO, Fla. — This year, Medicare implemented a number of changes as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as the health care reform bill. As a result of the PPACA, all Medicare files…
Thranhardt Lecture Series Winner Discusses New Shoulder Orthosis at the 2010 AOPA National Assembly
ORLANDO, Fla. — Andreas Kannenberg, MD, PhD, director of medical affairs at Otto Bock HealthCare in Duderstadt, Germany, discussed his Thranhardt Lecture Series winning study, “A New Shoulder Orthosis to Treat Painful Shoulder and Facilitate Gait Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients,”…
Physician Encourages Practitioners to Pay Closer Attention to Soft Tissue Management
ORLANDO, Fla. – Recognition of soft tissue problems following amputation can allow for earlier intervention and therefore better patient outcomes, according to Christian Ertl, MD, FACS, FACCWS in a presentation here at the 2010 American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association’s (AOPA)…
Representative Stresses Importance of Communicating Effectiveness of Braces in Treatment of Knee OA
ORLANDO, Fla. – In 2006 Frost and Sullivan looked at the brace and support industry and said that osteoarthritis (OA) braces were the fastest growing segment of the brace market. According to a sales representative here, that is not a…