Month: August 2014

CMS announced that it has initiated contract modifications with current recovery auditor contractors to allow the recovery auditors to restart some reviews. The modifications are needed to address the continued delay in awarding new recovery auditor contracts (RACs), according to…

Use of the Medicare Functional Classification Level for the classification of the functional capabilities of amputees is often limited by assessment techniques that can be administered in a clinical setting. In a recent feasibility study, researchers used Fitbit activity monitors…

Study shows new socket is equivalent to ischial ramus design in gait, balance measures.

Noted 19th century surgeon Gurdon Buck devised a weight and pulley traction system that is still used today.

A recent retrospective chart review supports the use of the Prosthesis Evaluation Questionnaire–Mobility Subscale score and the Amputee Mobility Predictor in patients with a prosthesis in the assessment of mobility and assignment of K-levels in patients with lower limb loss.…

The Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Office of Medicaid could have saved about $1 million on selected durable medical equipment items by using cost control measures, according to a results of a study recently released by…

A family restaurant found its niche with marketing tools.

Microprocessor technology is driving O&P ahead, but various implications can keep the amputee community behind.

A Nintendo Wii training regimen, in addition to standard multidisciplinary therapy, could be a feasible tool in post-stroke balance rehabilitation, according to recently published study results. Kelly Bower “Video game technologies, like the Nintendo Wii, have been adopted by clinicians…