Month: February 2016

The LimbU offers a phone charger, audio system, activity tracker and more.

It is all about managing expectations.

Patient satisfaction, self-image showed promise, but researchers noted further studies are needed.

LIHUE, HAWAII — More than 100 participants attended the U.S. National Member Society of the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics Pac Rim Conference to hear speakers on a variety of prosthetic, orthotic, research, business, medical and clinical topics. Highlights…

Recommendations focus on education of patients, payors.

Karl Fillauer heads an international O&P firm that grew from his immigrant grandfather’s Tennessee drugstore.

In this issue, O&P News poses five questions to Don Pierson, CO, CPed, president of operations for Arizona AFO, a central fabrication facility with more than 70 employees in Mesa, Ariz. Pierson has been with the company for 12 years.…

Data show older patients with limited mobility are significantly less likely to receive a prosthesis.

Treatment of pain with analgesics may be measured through the use of MRI, which could assist with drug development, according to recently published research. “We believe that neuroimaging techniques, such as [functional MRI] FMRI, can provide objective evidence that can…

Ottobock recently announced it has formed a new U.S. Orthotics Business Unit. Effective Jan. 1, 2016, the unit is supported by the North American Orthotics Sales Organization. According to a press release, the unit focuses solely on the sales of…