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  Prosthetic Referral Associated With Improved Survival A team of researchers in Texas characterized differences between people who were referred to prosthetists compared to those that were not, and identified factors associated with prosthetic referral and survival. The analysis found that being refer...
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  New DFU Boot Speeds Healing Daryl Lawson, PT, DSc, associate professor of physical therapy at Western Michigan University, and Christopher Arena, PhD, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Virginia Tech, developed a boot that offloads pressure on diabetic foot ulc...
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  Dralla Foundation Announces 2021 Grant Recipients Dralla Foundation announced grant awards to Catalyst Sports, Friends of Greensboro Parks and Recreation Foundation, Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association (GLASA), and STRIDE Adaptive Sports. The grants will go toward two adaptive mountain bike e...
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  In Memoriam: Adaptive Skiing Icon Hal O’Leary Harold "Hal" Frederick O'Leary, known as the founder of adaptive skiing, died at the age of 94 on June 3. O'Leary was born on May 9, 1927, in New Brunswick, Canada, and immigrated to the United States in 1949. Ski Magazine named O'Leary "One of th...
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  Study Documents Successful Method to Treat ITW A team of researchers sought to evaluate a 16-week treatment for idiopathic toe walking (ITW) with lower-leg orthoses and a circular foot unit over a 24-month follow-up period. The researchers practice at medical facilities in Germany, including a...
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  L-Test Can Indicate Mobility During Initial Prosthetic Training Noting that the L-Test should be performed at a fast walking speed to assess dynamic balance, researchers set out to determine its measurement properties in the initial prosthetic training phase after a lower-limb amputation. They concluded that t...
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  SBA Closes Paycheck Protection Program The United States Small Business Administration (SBA) announced the closure of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to new loan guaranty applications on June 1, which provided over $798 billion in economic relief to small businesses and nonprofit...
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  Additional Study Data Supports MPKs for Low-active Users A research team compared patient-reported and functional measures in people with transfemoral amputations and low-activity levels as they transitioned from mechanical prosthetic knees to microprocessor knees (MPKs). According to the authors, they...
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  MACs Resume Post-payment Medical Reviews Beginning in August 2020, Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) resumed post-payment reviews of items and services with dates of service before March 2020. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has now authorized the MACs to begi...
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  Allard Names District Manager Allard USA, Rockaway, New Jersey, named Tamra Averill, PT, as their new Great Lakes district manager. Averill has over 25 years of experience as a physical therapist, clinical consultant, and educator. She has worked the last 14 years with Acceler...
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  PrimeFare Central Calls for Abstracts PrimeCare Management Services, Germantown, Tennessee, has called for abstracts for its PrimeFare Central Scientific Symposium being held August 13-14 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The deadline for submissions is May 24. To be considered as a prosthetics, or...
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  Good Mental Health Crucial for Successful Rehab Veterans with combat-related amputations experience numerous challenges, yet few studies have examined patient-reported outcomes, including physical functional status, mental health screening status, and quality of life (QOL), or the relationship...