Day: August 28, 2012

The Gary Sinise Foundation and Tunnel to Towers collaborate to build custom smart homes for wounded warriors.

ABC-certified fitters are rare in rural areas of the state.

O&P researchers may not have all the answers, but they enjoy looking for them.

Eric Brumagin makes Extremity Games debut after losing his foot in a motocross accident.

A pint-sized idea can turn into a giant marketing tool.

Trunk sway and gait asymmetry improved among individuals with transtibial amputations who used a lower extremity ambulatory feedback system, according to a study published in Gait & Posture. “We’ve been working with sound sensors in shoes to come up with…

Farmers and ranchers require more durable, affordable and adaptable prostheses to facilitate them in their work. This study was published recently in Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology. “Farming continues to be a very physically demanding occupation,” Craig Heckathorne, MS, research…

Patients who undergo conservative treatment for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and their parents perceive emotional stress similarly when related to orthotic treatment. However, parents overestimate the assessment of stress related to body deformity, according to recent study results. “Many authors emphasize…

Freedom Fabrication is housed in a completely nondescript, 6,000-square-foot, windowless box on Hwy 27, the main road through Havana, Fla. Nothing outside the building suggests the hard work going on inside. Not even a sign. “I had a sign out…

Military personnel who sustained traumatic injuries leading to multiple amputations required significantly more hospital resources including blood products, surgical encounters and days spent in the intensive care unit than those with injuries causing single extremity amputation, according to a recent…