NEW ORLEANS — Modern, innovative technology could enhance features and improve user interaction with multi-articulating prosthetic hands, according to a speaker here at the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium. Lynsay Whelan, MS, OTR/L, director of…
Day: February 20, 2015
Mobile technology could improve user, prosthesis interaction
NEW ORLEANS — Modern, innovative technology could enhance features and improve user interaction with multi-articulating prosthetic hands, according to a speaker here at the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium. Lynsay Whelan, MS, OTR/L, director of…
Effect of elevated vacuum suspension on residual limb health, circulation can be quantifiable
NEW ORLEANS — The use of elevated vacuum suspension has positive, quantitative effects on residual limb health and circulation, according to a presenter here at the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium. Matthew Wernke, PhD,…
Effect of elevated vacuum suspension on residual limb health, circulation can be quantifiable
NEW ORLEANS — The use of elevated vacuum suspension has positive, quantitative effects on residual limb health and circulation, according to a presenter here at the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium. Matthew Wernke, PhD,…
Speaker: AFOs can provide day-to-day, functional benefits for children with myelomeningocele
NEW ORLEANS — A study of children with myelomeningocele using AFOs under a dual task paradigm has provided new insight on the day-to-day functional effect of AFOs on this population, according to Nikta Pirouz, CPO, who led the study at…
Speaker: AFOs can provide day-to-day, functional benefits for children with myelomeningocele
NEW ORLEANS — A study of children with myelomeningocele using AFOs under a dual task paradigm has provided new insight on the day-to-day functional effect of AFOs on this population, according to Nikta Pirouz, CPO, who led the study at…