Year: 2011

Disabled Sports USA (DSUSA) announced the schedule for its national SkiTour winter snow sports series. From January through April 2011 the DSUSA SkiTour will include more than 80 events hosted by 40 DSUSA chapters and affiliates in 18 states. Events…

In an analysis that included data from 9 studies, having higher measures of walking speed among older adults was associated with increased length of survival, according to a study in JAMA. “Remaining years of life vary widely in older adults,…

      Images: Freedom Innovations Sean Reyngoudt, the world’s only amputee professional kiteboarder and waverider, is featured in a new television action-adventure series, “Catching Air,” which premiered Jan. 6, 2011 on the Discovery Channel’s HD Theater. All six episodes…

Physicians now have help in their battle against methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a potentially deadly infection that initially was limited to hospitals and health care facilities but has become a growing problem in healthy children and adults. The Infectious…

Ability Prosthetics & Orthotics Inc. announced the acquisition via a cash free exchange of the Lexington, Ky. based prosthetics & orthotics provider BridgePoint Medical. BridgePoint’s four patient care centers located in Kentucky and North Carolina add to Ability’s five centers…

AMP1, a team of amputee basketball players will kick off a tour of the Dallas-Fort Worth area with an exhibition during the halftime show at the Dallas Mavericks/Oklahoma City Thunder game on Jan. 6, 2011 at the American Airlines Arena…

    Gregory A. Dumanian Northwestern Medicine announced the installation of Gregory A. Dumanian, MD, as the new chief of the division of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Dumanian, professor…

Put away your noisemaker and dust off your marketing budget plans to
shake things up for the new year.

    Andrea Barbera Although the post-mastectomy profession is noble, it is daunting to maintain this type of business, Andrea Barbera, CFM, care manager at Anita International Corporation in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., explained. Post-mastectomy professionals should be prepared to face…

Alex Miller, age 12 years, has been beating the odds since birth and he
continues to amaze his family and prosthetist with his achievements.