Year: 2015

The Board of Certification/Accreditation will again be a silver level sponsor for Orthotic and Prosthetic Assistance Foundation and the First Clinics in 2015. This is the fifth year the Board of Certification/Accreditation (BOC) has financially supported the work of the…

The Defense Advanced Research Projects awarded a $2.5 million contract to a Cleveland Clinic researcher and his team. The research team led by Paul Marasco, PhD, of Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Louis Stokes…

The Board of Certification/Accreditation announced it has earned reaccreditation from the National Commission for Certifying Agencies for another 5-year period for its pedorthist certification program. The Board of Certification/Accreditation (BOC) received National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) accreditation for its…

The Philadelphia Pediatric Medical Device Consortium has awarded RasLabs of Hingham, Mass. a grant to develop a material that could improve the fit and comfort of pediatric prostheses. RasLabs has created a polymer-based material that could improve the interface between…

Three groups of researchers supported by the NIH will receive funding from the President’s BRAIN project, which aims to improve artificial limb technology. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will fund and administer these groups and will build on the…

Net profit increased by 45% for Össur in 2014, according to recently released fourth quarter results. The company announced an increase of $59 million, or 12% of sales, over $41 million in 2013. Sales for the fourth quarter amounted to…

Becker Orthopedic has added four new members to the sales, marketing and product development teams. The company also announced it will be consolidating its Albany, Ore. branch. Jopi Siirtola, PT, was named international regional sales manager for Europe and Asia…

LAS VEGAS — Pedro Pimenta, Hanger patient advocate, visited the Hanger Education Fair and National Meeting to share his experience as a quadruple amputee and peer mentor.

Northwestern Medicine researchers will launch a clinical trial to explore targeted muscle reinnervation as a method of treating chronic pain in amputees. The goal of the therapy is to transfer a nerve that has been cut off from the muscles…

Lynn Bozof learned about the deadly effects of meningitis in 1998, when her 20-year-old son, Evan contracted meningococcal disease, an aggressive form of meningitis which starts with flulike symptoms and can end in the patient’s death in just 24 hours.…