The Amputee Coalition announced the support of WillowWood as a Lodestone Sponsor of the Amputee Coalition’s Paddy Rossbach Youth Camp for 2011. The youth camp is a 5-day traditional summer camp experience for children ages 10 to 17 years who…
Year: 2011
Lower Fat Intake Significantly Affects Diabetes Risk
Small differences in diet — even without weight loss — can significantly affect risk for diabetes, according to research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham published online by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In this study, 69 healthy,…
Study Finds Low Vitamin D Levels in African-Americans With MS
African-Americans who have multiple sclerosis (MS) have lower vitamin D levels than African-Americans who don’t have the disease, according to a study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. However, most of the difference in…
High Heels Lead to Women’s Foot Troubles
According to a recent study, 39% of women say they wear high heels every day, and 75% of those women say they experience regular shoe-related foot pain and suffer from bunions, arthritic big toes, calluses, hammer toes and plantar warts.…
Insurance Company Files $2.1 Million DMEPOS Fraud Case
According to a press release, Allstate Insurance Company is seeking to recover $2.1 million against 37 New York area defendants in its second insurance fraud lawsuit of 2011. The complaint, filed under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and…
Otto Bock Hires Territory Sales Representative for Indiana, Kentucky
Irina Powers Otto Bock HealthCare announced the new hire of Irina Powers as a territory sales representative for Otto Bock’s technical orthopedics business. In her new position, she is responsible for the territory of Indiana and Kentucky. Powers…
Unprecedented Level of Federal Funding Allocated for Pain Research in 2010
An extraordinary level of federal funding for pain research — some $400 million — was allocated in 2010 by the NIH through provisions of the American Recovery and Investment Act and the Affordable Care Act to help accelerate advances in…
Study Says a New Outcomes Measurement Tool Can Improve Nerve Injury Arm Surgery
The way that clinicians report outcomes of surgery for a traumatic nerve injury involving the arm is not standardized, and it is thus difficult to compare the efficacy of different surgical treatments, according to a study by researchers at Hospital…
Fitness Test Could Predict Long-Term Risk for Heart Attack, Stroke
In two separate studies, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that how fast a middle-age person can run a mile can help predict the risk of dying of heart attack or stroke decades later for men and could be…
NCOPE Earns Congratulations from ABC for 20 Years of Service to the Profession
The American Board for Certification in Orthotics, Prosthetics and Pedorthics Inc. (ABC) congratulated the National Commission on Orthotic and Prosthetic Education (NCOPE) on its 20 year anniversary in developing and assuring orthotic and prosthetic education and residency accreditation standards and…