Year: 2012

Being cut off from work email significantly reduces stress and allows employees to focus better, according to a study by University of California, Irvine and US Army researchers. “We found that when you remove email from workers’ lives, they multitask…

Moreso than many industries, O&P offers the practitioner different paths to practice and own a business. From owning a mom-and-pop shop to running a Hanger affiliate and everything in between, the opportunities for establishing a practice are only limited by…

Computer-aided design and manufacture can mean less time spent on fabrication and more on your patients.

College students turn off-the-shelf prosthetic arm into non-profit organization.

Surgeon Peter Lowe founded the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

University of Delaware researchers receive $3 million DARPA grant to develop AFOs with 3-D technology.

The Niagara Foot, a dynamic, injection-molded prosthetic foot, recently received a Medical Design Excellence Award in the rehabilitation and assistive-technology products category for its innovative and cost effective design. The foot was designed by Robert Gabourie, CP, of Niagara Prosthetics…

Claudia Zacharias, MBA, CAE, president and chief executive officer of the Board of Certification/Accreditation, International, has received the Baltimore SmartCEO magazine 2012 Brava! Award, according to a press release.     Claudia Zacharias Any female executives leading companies that generate…

USTA Serves has awarded an $8,000 grant to The Orthotic & Prosthetic Activities Foundation, Waterloo, Iowa, for its First Volley Adaptive Tennis Clinics. The national initiative of USTA Serves,  the National Charitable Foundation of the United States Tennis Association, is…

At the 2012 Paralympic Track and Field Trials in Indianapolis, Ind., several Hanger patient athletes placed in events including discus throw, shot put, 100m dash, 200m dash and 400m dash, according to a press release.       Cameron Clapp…