Day: December 1, 2012

Individuals with a lower limb amputation experience a deficiency in sensory input and in the absence of muscles and joints, adapt to a prosthesis to become functionally independent. Conditions to enable stepping over an obstacle using a knee flexion strategy…

Frank Tallman died as he lived — behind the controls of an airplane.

Disease advocacy organizations can systemically change the culture of public policy by reshaping funding distribution, changing the perceived beneficiaries of policies, promoting new metrics for commensuration and making cultural categories of worth increasingly relevant to policymaking, according to recent study…

BOSTON — In his presentation at the American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association National Assembly here, Jason Kahle, CPO, LPO, FAAOP, gave tips on how O&P practices could clinically differentiate themselves from their competition, and employ effective marketing strategies that would…

Individuals with diabetes and peripheral neuropathy are discouraged to conduct weight bearing exercise for risk of injury due to high peak plantar pressures creating skin breakdown. However, peak plantar pressures during most weight-bearing exercises are about the same as for…

With easy to navigate, up-to-date information, electronic health records can help keep clinicians on top of their patients’ medical history.

Individuals with physical disabilities who participated in adapted sports had significantly higher quality of life and life satisfaction scores compared with individuals with physical disabilities not involved in adapted sports, according to study results published in Disability and Health Journal.…

High coronary artery calcium score indicates artherosclerotic disease.

Collaborators from the Samuel S. Stratton Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Albany, N.Y. and the University of Pennsylvania have been investigating the effects of comprehensive rehabilitative services for patients undergoing amputations. “Around the time that we were looking at this…

When compared with an anatomically relevant biomechanical model, a unified deformable segment model is a valid generalized method for determining the quantity of total power of transtibial structures, according to results from a recent study. “When we design prosthetics and…