Internal Control: Why Do You Need It? - January 2008

TefloGlass—the Ultimate Oven Lining

TefloGlass is now the ultimate in oven linings. It's a Teflon®-impregnated fiberglass weave that won't trap air. TefloGlass ensures a marked increased in the uniform heating of any thermoplastic material.

There is no need for silicone powders or any other parting agents when using TefloGlass. Its porous weave greatly improves your vacuum-forming efficiency and can endure up to one year of everyday use. TefloGlass is available in a width of 48 in., and it is sold by the foot.

The Ortho Remedy
800.662.7993
www.orthoremedy.com

PROPRIO FOOT Stands and Delivers

The PROPRIO FOOT^TM is Ossur's latest addition from Bionic Technology. The world's first motor-powered and artificially intelligent prosthesis for transtibial amputees, the foot operates as closely as you can get today to natural, anatomical functioning.

Includes the following key benefits:

• Identifies slopes and stairs after the first step and instructs the ankle to flex appropriately.
• Allows wearers to more easily sit down or rise from a chair.
• Creates a more symmetrical and balanced gait.
• Easy to set up and operate. In 15 steps, the device evaluates and memorizes the wearer's unique way of walking.

Ossur
800.233.6263
www.ossur.com

New Look with a Tough Frame

Ossur's new Mauch® Knee and Mauch Knee Plus have a great new look with a tough aluminum frame and mechanical extension stop, making them the most durable and secure knees available. The new and enhanced features improve durability and provide more security for amputees at any activity level.

Included in the enhanced Mauch Knee family:

• Increased durability, engineered to endure the toughest use.
• Durability of the cylinder has been improved with the addition of spherical bearings, protecting the cylinder from damaging torsional forces.
• Side play is minimized by specially designed bushings of all moving parts in the knee.

Ossur
800.233.6263
www.ossur.com

CareCredit Helps More Patients Move Forward with Treatment Plans

To give practices immediate access to reports and information that can help them manage the financing portion of their practice and encourage patients to get the optimal technology they need, CareCredit, the nations leader in patient financing, has added enhanced features and functionality to CareCredit.com

CareCredit.com now features at-a-glance reporting so practices can view application status, see when patients apply at home, view patient available credit, and access the practices account activity and transaction summary. Experience these powerful and innovative new reports and tools at CareCredit.com

CareCredit
800.300.3046 x4519
www.carecredit.com

Offer Your Patients the Freedom They Want

The WalkAide® System consists of a small lightweight cuff and a device the size of a deck of cards worn just below the knee. WalkAide produces gentle electrical stimulation that activates the peroneal nerve and raises the foot at the appropriate time in the walking cycle. The result is freedom from wearing a conventional AFO while experiencing a more natural gait. Less effort is required to walk or perform everyday activities, and patients can wear any shoes or even go barefoot when appropriate. Innovative Neurotronics is sending out hundreds of leads per month to our O&P partners. Join our team now.

Innovative Neurotronics
888.884.6462
www.walkaide.com

Sensor Walk Electronic Stance Control

Meet the next generation of electronic stance control orthoticsthe Sensor Walk^TM Electronic Stance Control KAFO. Developed by Otto Bock in conjunction with the Mayo Clinic, the Sensor Walk delivers superb stance control in a heavy-duty custom KAFO. Unique sensors in the footplate know when the patient is in late stance phase and trigger the knee joint to unlock. Because an extension moment is not required to unlock the joint, the Sensor Walk helps provide a more natural gait.

The Sensor Walk can accommodate patients up to 300 lb. (136kg) and a 15-degree knee flexion contracture.

Otto Bock HealthCare
800.328.4058
www.ottobockus.com

Get OPTEC’s EZStep Fast

Why wait two or three weeks when you can have it now? OPTEC introduces the new EZStep leather gauntlet services, offering a 72-hour standard turnaround, with next-day and second-day fabrication also available.

The new EZStep AFO continues the pattern of innovation and excellence catered to your needs. The EZStep AFO features unsurpassed craftsmanship, premium leather outer shell with soft, comfortable, padded leather lining, and multiple closure systems for easy donning and doffing. The EZStep's custom fabrication combines incomparable comfort with unparalleled control, helping make each step easier than the last.

OPTEC
888.982.8181
www.optecbrace.com

Becker Orthopedic Distributes SpineCor in the U.S.

SpineCor® is a dynamic system that utilizes postural re-education to target four key progression factors of idiopathic scoliosis: neuromusculoskeletal dysfunction; growth asymmetry; postural disorganization; and spinal deformation.

SpineCor advantages include:

• 89 percent effective; clinically proven in a 400-patient, ten-year study.
• Documented Cobb angle reductions maintained for five years after treatment.
• Dedicated U.S. technical/clinical support staff.
• Increased patient acceptance; better compliance.
• Custom made to measurement from Becker Central Fabrication.

L-Code: L-1005. 2008 Phase I training seminars are now being scheduled. U.S. Patent No. 5,599,286.

Becker Orthopedic
800.521.2192
www.beckerorthopedic.com

Aspen Vista Cervical Collar - Available at Knit-Rite

The Vista Collar from Aspen improves patient care while saving time, money, and storage space. The innovative height adjustment technology makes the Vista Collar like six collars in one.

The right size is always on hand, reducing inventory cost and speeding up patient care. The enormous tracheal aperture provides functional access for airway management and other essential procedures.

The innovative design of the Vista Collar allows the practitioner to simply apply the collar and then adjust it to the proper height. Available in adult and child sizes.

Knit-Rite Inc.
800.821.3094

Becker Oregon Offers the BRAE Orthosis

The BRAE Orthosis is designed for the management of forearm rotation contractures using a static progressive stretching protocol. It is useful for treatment of forearm contractures resulting from upper-extremity fractures and injuries. Forearm rotation is adjusted through a dual offset channel with a patented overlapping adjustable rotation component.

Benefits include:

• Maintains post-surgical forearm rotation positioning.
• Decreases substitution that can result from misalignment of the mechanical to anatomical axis for forearm rotation.
• Maintains static progression of infinite positions in supination and pronation.
• Controls forearm rotation position while allowing free motion in the sagittal plane.

Becker Oregon
800.866.7522
www.beckerorthopedic.com

DuraLite: Durable and Lightweight

Ohio Willow Wood's DuraLite^TM foot weighs only 356g and provides high-energy return. Prosthetists can chose a pyramid receiver or rotating pyramid for the proximal adapter. The proximal adapters allow the foot to be easily field-height adjustable without drilling holes. The foot's maximum and minimum heights are 13 in. and 5.9 in. Other features include urethane toe pad, split heel, and two heel heights.

Amputees testing the DuraLite experienced successful foot performance while working construction, completing barn and livestock chores, hiking, and jogging.

The DuraLite has a 36-month warranty. Patient weight limit is 300 lb.

Ohio Willow Wood
800.848.4930
www.owwco.com

APU Bariatric PRAFO - Available from PEL Supply

The new 650 APU® Bariatric PRAFO® orthosis from Anatomical Concepts is available for immediate shipment from PEL Supply. Designed to accommodate larger patients, this new APU(adjustable posterior upright) can be used for ambulatory as well as recumbent patients and offers all the functionality of the standard APU.

Kodel® boot will fit across a dorsum measurement up to 23 in., and footplate width is 5 in. Extends from 12½ in. to 13¾ in. in length, and 14 in. to 15 in. in height. Available with traditional green/white or black liner (shown).

PEL Supply Company
800.321.1264
www.pelsupply.com

TRS Black Iron Trainer

The new Black Iron Trainer is a lighter version of the heavy-duty, high-performance Black Iron Master. While the Black Iron Trainer is smaller and lighter in weight, it is capable of handling the wide range of handle diameters that are encountered in modern fitness and exercise facilities.

The completely manual operation and positive locking and unlocking design provides uncompromising security and stability for bench pressing, dumbbell flys, dead lifts, pull-downs, and more. The Black Iron Trainer, with a load-rating of 440 lb., also carries a smaller price tag than its larger cousin.

TRS Inc.
800.279.1865
www.oandp.com/trs

Shaped by Perfection

Dycor's ADL-LCD Lisfranc/Chopart Energy Returning Foot provides maximum flexibility and resiliency, strength of attachment, and anatomical support of hindfoot, with minimum weight (12.5 oz. with foot shell, 26cm med) and socket clearance (3/8 in. including foot shell).

The forefoot is horizontally split into five segments to maintain the same degree of forefoot flexibility regardless of medial and lateral shift of the floor reaction. Integrated carbon fiber "tie-ins" around the heel portion of the keel are epoxied directly to the end of the socket, forming a stronger lap joint between the heel segment of the keel and the prosthetic socket. Titanium option available.

Dycor
800.794.6099
www.dycormfg.net

Educational DVD for Special Needs Kids

"Fun With The ABC's" DVD from Little Horizons Inc. is an animated learning adventure embracing special needs children that delivers education through entertainment. Share the experience with your waiting room visitors.

Little ones will love dancing and singing along to the fun music and rhymes as they journey through this visually exciting presentation. They will soar through the sky into outer space, visit the North Pole, explore the depths of the jungle, take a train ride into the Wild West, race off toward the finish line, or dive deep beneath the sea.

Little Horizons Inc.
786.566.7815
www.littlehorizons.com

O&P Enterprises’ OPCheck Sheets - Available at Knit Rite

Introducing a new top-quality, transparent material to use for evaluation interfaces. Not brittle, so there are no concerns about fracturing. Stiff with a bit of flexibility so it pulls easily and is very moldable. Easily modified with a heat gun. When heated to 340 degrees F, OPCheck Sheets pull easily with minimal shrinkage. Excellent bonding with easy grinding and edge finishing. Available in four thicknesses from 8mm to 15mm. Sheets are 16 in. by 16 in.

Knit-Rite Inc.
800.821.3094

OWW Alpha Flex Sleeve, at Knit-Rite

The Ohio Willow Wood Alpha Flex Sleeve offers flexibility, increased range of motion, and greater comfort. It may be used with locking suspension, suction suspension, or LimbLogic^© VS to create an airtight seal. The durable Alpha Flex Sleeve uses a derivative of the popular Alpha gel.

For even more durability, the Alpha Flex Sleeve features a contoured polyurethane pad on the interior fabric cuff. This pad, which covers the typical socket brim, helps reduce damage to the seal due to impacts in the brim area.

Gel thickness is 3mm. Warranted for 30 days from date of original shipment. Suggested U.S. L-Code is L-5675.

Knit-Rite Inc.
800.821.3094

We Buy Practices!

BridgePoint Medical, an orthotics and prosthetics company, will solve your business issues and allow you to focus on your patients. We are not brokers, a buyout fund, or corporate CPAs. We are well-funded, experienced, and focused on creating a great patient care company. We can provide immediate cash and help you plan your future. We also offer a FREE practice evaluation.

If you are interested in finding a partner to run the business side of your practice, contact us. All discussions will remain confidential.

BridgePoint Medical
859.260.8576
www.bp-medical.com/partner.htm