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  Orthosis Developer Wins Innovation Challenge Sea Legs, headquartered in Massachusetts, which developed an AFO to increase mobility for people with bone abnormalities, was selected as one of seven winners of the Upstate Medical University's 2018 Medical Device Innovation Challenge. The win al...
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  3D Printed Gears Can Track Prosthesis Use Without Electronics Engineers at the University of Washington (UW) have developed 3D-printed gears that can track and store information without using batteries or electronics. Instead, the system uses a method called backscatter, through which a device, including a p...
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  Paralympian Named Sportswoman of the Year Oksana Masters became just the second Paralympian honored as the individual sportswoman of the year at the Women's Sports Foundation's Annual Salute to Women in Sports ceremony on October 17 in New York City. Masters, 28, won five medals at the Pa...
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  $3.4 Million for Universities to Develop a Prosthetic BCI A team of researchers at the University of Chicago (UChicago) and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) have received a $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue collaboration toward developing prosth...
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  CAAHEP Calls for Comments on O&P Tech Standards The Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) has called for open comments on the Orthotic and Prosthetic Technician Standards Appendix B. Comments are due by November 15. To review the proposed Appendix B of the Sta...
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  Tool That Speeds Prosthetic Fittings Earns $1.71M Adapttech, headquartered in Birmingham, England, earned a £1.3 million (about $1.71 million) funding round for development of tool that is said to offer a faster and easier way to fit lower-limb prostheses and monitor patients' rehabilitatio...
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  OSUIT Seeks Survey Input on O&P Associate Degree Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology (OSUIT) is seeking input on a survey as it explores the possibility of creating a two-year associate degree for O&P assistants to complement its current O&P technologies program. The univer...
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  CPO Earns Leading Women Award Marlies Cabell, CPO, Ability Prosthetics & Orthotics, Frederick, Maryland, will receive one of the 2018 Leading Women Awards, which recognize the career accomplishments of women who are under 40 years old. The awards have been given by The Dai...
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  Pattern Recognition System Earns FDA Approval Infinite Biomedical Technologies (IBT), Baltimore, has received approval from the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Sense myoelectric prosthetic control system to be sold in the United States.
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  P.W. Minor Closes After 151 Years P.W. Minor, Batavia, New York, closed its operations and laid off its staff on October 5. The orthopedic shoe manufacturer had been in business since 1867.