Month: September 2016

The story behind a Texas cowboy legend.

ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02666859 Purpose: The proposed project is to develop an effective prosthetic training and rehabilitation regimen, with the use of virtual reality, to return patients to the highest level of independence and functioning possible. The Computer-assisted Rehabilitation Environment System…

Newly launched program gets children ‘on the go’ with specially modified toy cars.

Marketing and kind gestures: They go together like coffee and cat treats.

With advances in technology, athletes get set for center stage.

ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02678247 Purpose: The overall objective of this study is to provide a more comfortable and functional prosthetic socket for people with transfemoral amputation that will ultimately improve their quality of life. Study type: Interventional Study design: Randomized, efficacy…

Summer is a time for family, friends and fun. In light of summer coming to an end and fall rolling in, O&P News takes a look at how O&P practices and companies spent the time together. While some groups went…

In this issue, O&P News poses five questions to Molly McCoy, L/CPO. McCoy is a Washington state licensed, certified prosthetist/orthotist with 20 years of experience in O&P. After graduating from the University of Washington, she completed her residencies at an…

Beatrice Janka, MPO, CPO, has been announced as the winner of the 2016 Thranhardt Award, according to a press release. Beatrice Janka Janka is a clinical prosthetist-orthotist and product development engineer at Becker Orthopedic. She received the award based on…

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia declined to delay proceedings in the Administrative Law Judge backlog suit filed by the American Hospital Association against HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell, according to a statement from the National Association for…