Month: March 2011

Hanger Orthopedic Group has pledged $45,000 to the Amputee Coalition’s Bridge to Ability Fund throughout the next 3 years. Through this fund, scholarships will be provided to new amputees to attend the national conference, June 1-4 in Kansas City, Mo.…

On March 28, leading experts across multiple disciplines will convene at the 2nd World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes to review the latest research on bariatric surgery as a treatment option. The three-day meeting, hosted by NewYork-Presbyterian…

Physiotherapy Associates announced that Andrew DeVoe has been hired as chief financial officer. In DeVoe’s new role, his initial focus will center on refining the processes of the revenue cycle and overseeing corporate financial matters. DeVoe is an industry-recognized specialist…

Throughout much of the early history of cigarette smoking in the United States, consumption was typically 1 pack – about 20 cigarettes – each day. Since the first surgeon general’s report on smoking and health in 1964, there has been…

DJO Global, Inc. (DJO) vascular health and pain management, announced that one of its indirect subsidiaries has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Dr. Comfort. The transaction is expected to close within 30 to 45 days. “Dr. Comfort has expanded…

SAN DIEGO — Practitioners should consider counseling their patients against driving when they wear or have been prescribed certain lower-extremity immobilization devices, according to the results of a prospective observational study presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American…

Brightree announced the acquisition of Pacware Software Development Inc., a full-service software and consulting provider. Within the terms of the agreement, Pacware president Byron Maynard will join the Brightree management team as the executive vice president responsible for the Pacware…

Technological advancements have freed up time for documentation andinformation gathering.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Osteoarthritis of the hip in patients with Down syndrome can be effectively treated with total hip arthroplasty (THA), according to an orthopedic investigator.     John J. Callaghan “If you look at the literature, somewhere between 8%…

The Northwestern University Prosthetics-Orthotics Center (NUPOC) is establishing international service initiatives with other countries where NUPOC graduates can volunteer their O&P expertise, augment their clinical proficiency and improve the lives of under-resourced populations of people who live with physical disability.…