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  Ottobock Marks a Century Ottobock, Duderstadt, Germany, marked its 100th anniversary on February 18, with a celebration and visits from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prime Minister of Lower Saxony Stephan Weil, and Wolfgang Nolte, mayor of Duderstadt. The city invited...
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  Energy-storage Technology Could Lead to Solar-powered Prostheses In a paper published February 13 in the journal Advanced Science, a team of engineers from the University of Glasgow described how they used layers of graphene and polyurethane to create a flexible supercapacitor that can generate power from the s...
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  California O&P Company Expands Capstone Orthopedic, Castro Valley, California, and its principal partners purchased Douglass Certified Prosthetics & Orthotics in Seattle. This marks the first time Capstone, which has ten locations in California, has expanded outside the state....
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  Classification Tree Predicts Prosthesis Users’ Functional Potential The fourth part of the Mobility Analysis of AmpuTees (MAAT 4) study, published online February 11 in Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, developed a classification tree analysis to determine the probability of a lower-limb pros...
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  Cigna Adopts Personal Exoskeleton Coverage ReWalk Robotics, Marlborough, Massachusetts, and Yokneam Ilit, Israel, announced that Cigna Corporation, a private health insurance company, has revised its policy regarding coverage of exoskeleton medical devices for individuals with spinal cord...
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  US ISPO Names Interim Director The U.S. Member Society of the International Society of Prosthetics & Orthotics (US ISPO) board of directors has named George Gondo interim director of US ISPO. Gondo comes on board following the departure of Dianne Farabi who announced her retire...
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  AOPA Calls for Papers The American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association (AOPA) has issued a call for papers for the 102nd Annual AOPA National Assembly to be held September 25-28, 2019, in San Diego. The submission deadline is March 25, 2019. Papers are being accepted for...