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  Nominations Open for 2020 National Small Business Person Awards The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is accepting nominations for its 2020 National Small Business Week Awards, including the Small Business Person of the Year. For more than 50 years, National Small Business Week has celebrated the achiev...
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  CAAHEP Opens Pedorthic Education Standards Comments The Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) announced that the proposed Standards and Guidelines for the Accreditation of Programs in Pedorthic Education are open for public comment. Comments are due by October 10...
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  Prosthetic Center of Excellence Hosts First Things First Prosthetic Center of Excellence, Las Vegas, recently hosted and sponsored a First Things First at the University of Nevada – Las Vegas (UNLV). The workshop on falls and recovery was attended by local therapists and UNLV students pursuing physical...
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  Foot Painters’ Toes Mapped Like Fingers In The Brain Researchers at University College London, England, and Tel Aviv University, Israel, have discovered that people who use their feet like hands can cause organized hand-like maps of the toes in the brain. The findings, published in Cell Reports, de...
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  NAAOP Webcast: MedPAC Discusses Expansion of DMEPOS Competitive Bidding The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP) released its latest webcast in which general counsel Peter Thomas, JD, gives an update on a proposed rule change by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS...
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  Amputee Coalition Names New Board Chair The Amputee Coalition has named Jeffrey Cain, MD, as the new chair of its board of directors. Cain has served the coalition as a board member and as a past member of its Scientific & Medical Advisory Committee. He is also the founding chair of the...
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  Using a Prosthesis Requires More Cognitively From Transfemoral Amputees A study in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society evaluated the influence of lower-limb loss on mental workload by assessing neurocognitive measures in individuals with unilateral transtibial amputations compared to those with...