Author: Terense Kemp

CHICAGO — Elizabeth Halsne, CPO, research prosthetist at the Center for Bionic Medicine at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, presented strategies to collect high-quality surface electromyography data from an amputee’s limb to control powered lower limb prostheses at the American…

Its slim profile and light weight make the Indego an option for paraplegics.

3-D printing company creates personalized orthoses through a smartphone application.

Managers who were accurate and consistent with their business decisions, and unbiased and fair to employees — known as procedural justice behaviors — experienced a greater depletion in energy, or burnout, according to study results published in the Journal of…

The wartime heroics of “Wild Bill” Guarnere were dramatized in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers.

According to a literature review, lower extremity amputees experience greater postural imbalance compared with the able-bodied population. Researchers attributed the difference to load distribution asymmetry, in which more load is applied to the non-amputated leg. “The aim of this review…

The complexity of crafting an effective orthosis for upper limb and hand amputees involves both a patients’s particular needs and disorders, and capturing an appropriate impression to use in the fabrication procedure, a speaker said here. Spasticity, difficult shapes of…

Diligent paperwork, niche offerings and exceptional staff are key to keeping an O&P practice successful.

CHICAGO — A speaker at the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium presented case studies that demonstrated prosthetic solutions to improve the function of electric digits for partial hand amputees. “It is difficult for partial…

Researchers from Columbia University Medical Center used optogenetics, a method that uses light as a signaling system to turn neurons on and off on demand, to show that Merkel cells in the skin can sense touch. Their study results, published…