Year: 2012

The National Commission on Orthotic & Prosthetic Education (NCOPE) is now accepting applications for the Larry Lange Travel Fellowship Award, ...

The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), Illinois, publicly unveiled what it calls the first "thought-controlled bionic leg." Developed for individuals ...

Jim Kingsley has been named chief operating officer (COO) of Scheck & Siress, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. He has more ...

Clinicare Medical Resources/Blake Manufacturing Inc. (BMI), Tampa, Florida, has announced that Nelson LeMarquand MS, CO, LO, FAAOP, has been appointed ...

Researchers from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, received a one-year, $50,000 grant from the ...

Fourteen members of the Orthotic and Prosthetic Group of America (OPGA), Waterloo, Iowa, and POINT Health Centers of America, Waterloo, ...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced that a meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and ...

Sketch of the Parker-Hannifin design concept for the commercial version of the Vanderbilt exoskeleton, courtesy of Parker-Hannifin. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, ...

Hanger, Austin, Texas, announced net sales of $243.5 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2012, an increase of $8.2 ...

Feet aren't just a built-in mode of transportation—they can be critical to a person's professional success. For a professional athlete, ...