LEIPZIG, Germany — A novel, noninvasive method can assess changes to residual limb skin health and circulation in response to elevated vacuum suspension, according to data presented here. Matthew Wernke “These techniques leverage out-of-socket skin health measurements, out-of-socket circulation imaging,…
Day: May 15, 2014
Novel approach assesses skin health in elevated vacuum suspension socket
LEIPZIG, Germany — A novel, noninvasive method can assess changes to residual limb skin health and circulation in response to elevated vacuum suspension, according to data presented here. Matthew Wernke “These techniques leverage out-of-socket skin health measurements, out-of-socket circulation imaging,…
Multidisciplinary cooperation necessary as O&P moves forward
LEIPZIG, Germany — Klaus-Jürgen Lotz, president of Orthopädie-Technik, discussed the changing landscape of O&P and the orthopedic market in his keynote address at OT World Congress, here. In Germany’s universal, statutory multi-payer health care system, solidarity and benefits in kind…
Multidisciplinary cooperation necessary as O&P moves forward
LEIPZIG, Germany — Klaus-Jürgen Lotz, president of Orthopädie-Technik, discussed the changing landscape of O&P and the orthopedic market in his keynote address at OT World Congress, here. In Germany’s universal, statutory multi-payer health care system, solidarity and benefits in kind…
Hugh Herr delivers keynote address on bionics at OT World Congress
LEIPZIG, Germany — Bionics are the science and engineering of extreme interfaces between the human body and synthetics, according to a keynote speaker at the OT World Congress, here. Hugh Herr Hugh Herr, PhD, the director of Massachusetts Institute of…
Hugh Herr delivers keynote address on bionics at OT World Congress
LEIPZIG, Germany — Bionics are the science and engineering of extreme interfaces between the human body and synthetics, according to a keynote speaker at the OT World Congress, here. Hugh Herr Hugh Herr, PhD, the director of Massachusetts Institute of…