UCLA grad student develops tactile feedback system to correct gait deficiencies.
Year: 2013
Compared with barefoot walking, a standard flexible shoe and stability running shoe significantly altered electromyographic activation of leg muscles in individuals with flat-arched feet. Their wear demonstrated a similar pattern of lower leg muscle activity in adults walking short distances…
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Improvements are often observed as individuals undergo repeated testing, and changes in gait kinematics may result following the use of treadmills to retrain gait in post-stroke patients. Mere exposure to multiple testing sessions, pre-intervention and post-intervention testing, on a treadmill…
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Small differences in joint kinematics provide insight to whether overground walking is similar to treadmill training.
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LAS VEGAS —Roy D. Bloebaum, PhD, a research professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine, discussed new research and developments in osseointegration at the Hanger Education Fair and National Meeting, here. According to Bloebaum, traditional prosthetic sockets can…
NAS releases prepayment review of external breast prostheses
Noridian Administrative Services (NAS) LLC, the Jurisdiction D Durable Medical Equipment Medicare Administrative Contractor (DME MAC) Medical Review Department, completed a widespread prepayment probe review of external breast prostheses. This review involved 95 claims of which 68 were denied, resulting…