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  AFO Alignment Affects Running Mechanics Individuals with severe injuries to their lower limbs often require AFOs to return to normal activities. AFO alignment is key during the clinical fitting process and may be important during dynamic activities such as running. To investigate how 3...
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  PPS O&P Services Names Marketing Director, Patient Advocate PPS Orthotic & Prosthetic Services, Chattanooga, Tennessee, has named Lindsay Clark as its new marketing director and patient advocate. Clark has five years of marketing experience in O&P and has worked and volunteered at numerous prosthetic facil...
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  PPS O&P Services Names Marketing Director, Patient Advocate PPS Orthotic & Prosthetic Services, Chattanooga, Tennessee, has named Lindsay Clark as its new marketing director and patient advocate. Clark has five years of marketing experience in O&P and has worked and volunteered at numerous prosthetic facil...
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  Ottobock Marks a Century Ottobock, Duderstadt, Germany, marked its 100th anniversary on February 18, with a celebration and visits from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prime Minister of Lower Saxony Stephan Weil, and Wolfgang Nolte, mayor of Duderstadt. The city invited...
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  Energy-storage Technology Could Lead to Solar-powered Prostheses In a paper published February 13 in the journal Advanced Science, a team of engineers from the University of Glasgow described how they used layers of graphene and polyurethane to create a flexible supercapacitor that can generate power from the s...
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  California O&P Company Expands Capstone Orthopedic, Castro Valley, California, and its principal partners purchased Douglass Certified Prosthetics & Orthotics in Seattle. This marks the first time Capstone, which has ten locations in California, has expanded outside the state....
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  Classification Tree Predicts Prosthesis Users’ Functional Potential The fourth part of the Mobility Analysis of AmpuTees (MAAT 4) study, published online February 11 in Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, developed a classification tree analysis to determine the probability of a lower-limb pros...
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  Cigna Adopts Personal Exoskeleton Coverage ReWalk Robotics, Marlborough, Massachusetts, and Yokneam Ilit, Israel, announced that Cigna Corporation, a private health insurance company, has revised its policy regarding coverage of exoskeleton medical devices for individuals with spinal cord...
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  AOPA Calls for Papers The American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association (AOPA) has issued a call for papers for the 102nd Annual AOPA National Assembly to be held September 25-28, 2019, in San Diego. The submission deadline is March 25, 2019. Papers are being accepted for...