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Year: 2015
DARPA awards grant for custom sockets to Biodesigns
California-based Biodesigns Inc. recently announced it was awarded a $999,822 firm fixed price Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create a socket diagnostic tool for the manufacture and fitment of custom…
Researchers exploring mirror therapy to reduce phantom limb pain
Researchers at Temple University are studying the use of mirror therapy to potentially reduce limb pain in combat veterans with complex orthopedic injury or nerve damage. Mirror therapy is a rehabilitative technique that uses a common mirror to display a…
Greater time burden for medical care among minorities, unemployed
Time spent at a health care provider’s office, along with travel time to and from the office, was 25% to 28% longer among minority and unemployed patients, according to recently published data. The researchers analyzed data from the 2005–2013 American…
Researchers awarded $3.3 million NIH grant to study cognitive intervention for sedentary seniors
Researchers at Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine recently announced they have received a $3.3 million grant from the NIH to study the effectiveness of cognitive training programs in improving the mobility of sedentary seniors. The single-blind…
Researchers awarded $3.3 million NIH grant to study cognitive intervention for sedentary seniors
Researchers at Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine recently announced they have received a $3.3 million grant from the NIH to study the effectiveness of cognitive training programs in improving the mobility of sedentary seniors. The single-blind…
Surgery for adult spinal deformity results in a significant increase of quality adjusted life years
MINNEAPOLIS — Compared with nonsurgical treatment, patients who underwent surgery to treat adult spinal deformity had a significant increase of quality-adjusted life years at 1, 2 and 3 years post-surgery, according to a speaker here. Health-related quality of life outcomes…
O&P News to provide live coverage of AOPA National Assembly
SAN ANTONIO — O&P News will provide live coverage from the American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association National Assembly, which take place Oct. 7-10 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. The assembly will offer five concurrent session tracks for orthotists,…
Study: Community characteristics affect health of residents with spinal cord injury
Researchers at the Penn Graduate School of education found that community-built environmental influence has an effect on the health of people with spinal cord injury, according to results published recently in Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. Amanda Botticello, PhD,…
Study: Community characteristics affect health of residents with spinal cord injury
Researchers at the Penn Graduate School of education found that community-built environmental influence has an effect on the health of people with spinal cord injury, according to results published recently in Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. Amanda Botticello, PhD,…