Day: April 12, 2012

During her visits, Stephanie Massie, CPed, often helps elderly patients with household chores.

Charita Bauer’s personal tragedies made her character, Bertha “Bert” Bauer, a memorable matriarch.

If you don’t have an answer for a customer, you should make the extra effort to find out.

Orthocare Innovations has recently introduced Edison, an adaptive vacuum suspension system that intuitively and automatically adjusts the amount of vacuum to the level most appropriate to the specific activities of the patient. While mechanical vacuums work to reach constant pressure,…

Experts from the surgical arena suggest that the Ponseti method for clubfoot results in better outcomes than surgical procedures.

An Associated Press news story published on Feb. 15 highlighted the cost increases of Medicare prosthetic feet in 2010 compared with 2005 despite a slight decline in the number of amputee beneficiary recipients for those devices. The story raised questions…

Kyle Maynard becomes the first amputee to reach the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro unassisted.

New research shows that employees on sick leave with mental health disorders fully returned to work sooner when they received therapy that addressed work-related problems and how to return to work, according to a study published by the American Psychological…

Instructors educate O&P professionals on the limitations of the FDA’s authority at AOPA seminar.

Practitioners look to novel ways of using familiar lower limb orthotic alternatives to complement new technology.