Month: October 2014

Through use of a direct interface connected to the residual peripheral nerve in upper extremity amputees, investigators at the Advanced Platform Technology Center in the Department of Veterans Affairs are pursuing a system that attempts to provide sensory feedback for…

Utilize teamwork for marketing success.

Among patients who have had an acute cerebrovascular accident, use of either an off-the-shelf carbon ankle-foot orthosis or a custom plastic ankle-foot orthosis significantly improved gait velocity, cadence and step and stride length compared with no ankle-foot orthosis, according to…

Device can determine, address rejection factors before prosthesis fitting clears.

Loss aversion is a significant driver of investors’ risk preferences for stocks, according to study results. “There are a bunch of different risk tolerance surveys that financial planners use to assess risk tolerance and we were trying to determine what…

While customer experience matters when the economy is doing poorly, factors such as customer satisfaction and whether the firm has rectified a failure matter more to customers when the economy is doing better, according to results of a recently published…

After an accident took his left leg, Bryan Green refused to let his lower limb amputation keep him from racing.

Researchers from the University of Manchester found non-amputees thought prosthetic hands that resembled real human hands were more “eerie” than mechanical prosthetic hands. “It has been hypothesized that there is an uncanny valley for hands, such that a hand that…

Veteran pedorthists share their strategies for success.

First arch support device was unpadded, featured flanges.