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  WillowWood Names New Technology Chief WillowWood, Mt. Sterling, Ohio, has named John Robertson as its new chief technology officer. Robertson has experience in the development of U.S.
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  AOPA Says BCBS Draft Policy Would Reduce Access to Prostheses The American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association (AOPA) said on October 1 that a draft policy governing coverage of lower-limb prostheses would significantly reduce access to advanced prosthetic technology for Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) subsc...
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  ReWalk Projected to Miss Third Quarter Expectations ReWalk Robotics, Marlborough, Massachusetts, and Yokneam Ilit, Israel, announced that its third quarter (3Q) earnings will come in roughly 6 percent lower than it did during the same period a year ago. The exoskeleton developer said it expected to...
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  Wright & Filippis Hosts First Climb Wright & Filippis, headquartered in Rochester Hills, Michigan, and the Filippis Foundation hosted a pediatric First Climb Clinic in Madison Heights, Michigan, on October 6. Instructor Tommy Lyons, a paraclimber who has a transtibial amputati...
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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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  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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  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...