In a study of people with lower-limb amputations after discharge from rehabilitation, researchers found non-use of the prosthesis can be predicted at 4 months, 8 months and 12 months after discharge. Researchers audited patient medical records for potential predictor variables.…
Day: December 12, 2014
Treatment is changing for geriatric O&P patients
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Gerald Stark, MSEM, CPO/L, FAAOP, senior upper limb clinical specialist for Ottobock Health Care, talks about the ways treatment of geriatric patients within O&P is changing and how practitioners can be more accommodating at the New…