Author: Terense Kemp

Early registration is now open for the 2014 Design of Medical Devices Conference being held from April 7-10 at The Commons Hotel & McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis. The conference brings together medical device designers, manufacturers, researchers and representatives from…

Patients with Medicaid insurance often seek health care in an emergency department due to a lack of alternative care options, rather than the severity of their illness, according to study results recently published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.…

One O&P practitioner overlooked safety and health concerns in the lab, but turned his misfortune into a new career.

When casting an individual’s residual limb for socket design and prosthetic fitting, practitioners should be mindful of prior activity and doffing history, which could influence the cast shape, according to study results published in the Journal of Rehabilitation Research &…

The procedure can help patients with older and more extreme injuries.

His efforts to help other amputee vets with Purple Heart Homes landed Dale Beatty on CNN’s Top 10 Hero list for 2013.

After losing his leg in battle, Halbert Eleazer Paine was elected to Congress, practiced law, and introduced government bureaucracy to one of its most valuable tools.

As obesity increases in the United States, the O&P industry works on adapting to the needs of overweight and obese amputees.

Survey reveals consumers don’t know as much as they think they know about health insurance.

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