Year: 2015

A 2-year pilot program that began on June 1 is paving the way for patient navigation in the field of orthotics and prosthetics. Orthologix, based in Trevose, Pa. and Voorhees, N.J., launched the program in an effort to boost outcomes…

Recently published data out of Tuft University’s School of Medicine could lead to reduced joint overloading and improved gait in lower limb prosthesis users. The study, results published in Nature Scientific Reports, demonstrate that subperiosteal hydrostatic pressures can be transmitted…

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Reimbursement and regulatory experts share tips for O&P business owners.

World War I established Charles A. Blatchford and Sons as a major designer and producer of artificial limbs.

Most employers have fewer than 50 full-time employees or full-time equivalent employees. Therefore, they are not subject to the Affordable Care Act’s employer shared-responsibility provision. If an employer has fewer than 50 full-time employees, including full-time equivalent employees, on average…

As the Affordable Care Act reshapes the face of health care, unintended challenges are facing O&P.

Grad student engineers exoskeleton to help himself, others walk again.

In this issue, O&P News poses five questions to Greg Mattson, CTPO, CPA. Mattson is president and CEO of Fabtech Systems LLC, an orthotic and prosthetic central fabricator and product manufacturing distributor located in Everett, Wash. Mattson has been actively…

A multi-year study, aiming to allow those with paralysis remotely control a robot using their thoughts, has produced positive results, according to data recently published in Proceedings of the IEEE. A team of researchers at the Defitech Foundation Chair in…