Year: 2014

Researchers plan future studies that will examine causes of the excessive energy cost of walking.

Among pediatric and juvenile patients with idiopathic flexible flatfeet, both symptomatic and asymptomatic flatfeet showed considerably altered foot motion during walking, according to study results published in Gait & Posture. The largest differences were found in reduced hindfoot dorsiflexion as…

The right credentials help one pedorthist give his patients the best fit.

Children with limb loss maintain balance while carrying a backpack by developing similar strategies as able-bodied children to maintain stability, according to study results. “There is a decent bit of data on able-bodied kids with heavy backpacks, but not so…

Although email marketing has been declared dead, the stats tell a different story.

Mobile computing has become increasingly necessary in O&P, but safeguards must be in place to protect patient data.

University of Massachusetts Lowell students develop low-cost prosthesis that grows with patients.

CHICAGO — Patients show positive outcomes with the use of the Michelangelo myoelectric multigrip hand in activities of daily living, according to results of a multicenter trial presented here at during the Thranhardt Lectures during the American Academy Annual Meeting…

CHICAGO — Patients show positive outcomes with the use of the Michelangelo myoelectric multigrip hand in activities of daily living, according to results of a multicenter trial presented here at during the Thranhardt Lectures during the American Academy Annual Meeting…

CHICAGO — Transtibial amputees can use pull-up skin covers to cope with psychological distress, Jason Highsmith, DPT, PhD, CP, FAAOP, said in his presentation at the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetist Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium. Non-cosmetically finished prostheses…