Author: Terense Kemp

With 2008 in the rearview, the market remains low but take a closer look at history to gauge where we are headed.

A popular cosmetic treatment proves promising in the world of the post-stroke patient dealing with spasticity.

CMS reported it protected roughly $400 million of taxpayer dollars as improper payments for Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) decreased from 3.9% in fiscal year (FY) 2007 to 3.6% or $10.4 billion, in FY 2008. The Medicare, Medicaid and State Children’s Health…

People tend to renew their commitment to fitness right around the New Year. They sign up for gym memberships, buy new workout clothes and shoes and make promises to stick to their New Year’s resolutions to exercise and lose weight.…

Companies considering downsizing as a strategy for surviving the current economic recession should know one thing about the experience that many companies had with downsizing: It did not work. “Research shows that downsizing very seldom works,” Clint Chadwick, PhD, an…

Following the party shift, an active year for health care policy is expected.

After an explosion in Iraq left him with little more than his torso, Brian Kolfage worked with the Hanger team to become independent again.

WWP and ACA Train Military Amputee Peer Visitors Disability Rights Legal Center Honors Ossur WWP and ACA Train Military Amputee Peer Visitors   © 2008/Corbis Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) and the Amputee Coalition of America (ACA) have expanded the Military…

As the O&P profession looks to the future, it is plain to see that green is the new hot color. In 2002, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) hosted little more than 4,000 attendees at its first Green Building Conference.…

There are big changes coming for the future of O&P technicians.