Author: Terense Kemp

The Challenged Athletes Foundation’s Annual Mazda Foundation Million Dollar Challenge kicked off on Oct. 11, leading more than 100 cyclists, including celebrities, professional athletes and eight athletes with physical challenges on the 7-day, 620-mile ride down the California coastline. Each…

Daniel Ignaszewski, director of government relations and development for the Amputee Coalition, discusses the impact – both positive and negative – of the Affordable Care Act on amputees.

A novel osseointegrated implant system may allow amputees to control a prosthesis using their minds, according to research recently published in the Science Translational Medicine Journal. “We have used osseointegration to create a long-term stable fusion between man and machine,”…

Researchers with the University of Texas at Arlington have been awarded a $744,300 grant from the Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Orthapaedic Research Program to create an adaptive interface that fits between a prosthesis and a patient’s limb to improve…

Next year’s standard Medicare Part B monthly premium and deductible – which covers durable medical equipment items, among other services – will remain the same as the last 2 years, according to an announcement from the Department of Health and…

Recent research published in Science Translational Medicine showed peripheral nerve interfaces implanted in two participants with upper limb amputation provided stable, natural touch sensation in their hands for more than a year. Using implanted peripheral nerve cuff electrodes that did…

A basic yoga pose, practiced for an average of 1.5 minutes a day, 6 days a week for 2 months, reduced idiopathic scoliosis curves for adolescent and adult patients an average of 32%, according to a study published in Global…

First Swing Learn to Golf Clinics were held recently at Desert Pines Golf Club in Las Vegas and Morningstar Golf Club in Waukesha, Wis. The clinics, hosted by the Orthotic & Prosthetic Activities Foundation allowed amputees, spinal cord injury, stroke…

First Swing Learn to Golf Clinics were held recently at Desert Pines Golf Club in Las Vegas and Morningstar Golf Club in Waukesha, Wis. The clinics, hosted by the Orthotic & Prosthetic Activities Foundation allowed amputees, spinal cord injury, stroke…

Although gender diversity in the workplace helps firms be more productive, it may also reduce satisfaction among employees, according to study results published in the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. Researchers used 8 years of revenue data and survey…