Advancing Care for Upper-limb Loss
Providing upper-limb prosthetic care is often viewed as particularly difficult because of the complexity of trying to replicate the function...
Billing Company Secrets (Ssshhhh!)
In our years in business handling over 100,000 O&P claims per year in 22 states, CBS Medical Billing and...
Climbing to Westworld: Realism in Prosthetic Design
HBO's science fiction series Westworld  is based in an amusement park populated with robotic creatures whose advanced construction and programming...
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, I'm writing in response to The O&P EDGE's  August articles on 3D printing. The issue of 3D printing...
OPERF Turns Ten
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Orthotic and Prosthetic Education and Research Foundation (OPERF), a nonprofit organization...
Remembering an Industry Leader: Stephen C. Jacobsen, PhD
One of the most memorable characters in the recent history of U.S. prosthetics was Stephen C. Jacobsen, PhD, the primary...
The Value of a Washington DC Education
The following is a firsthand account of lessons learned from the ten-week fellowship I experienced this summer as the...
Tiffany Johnson: TMR Was the Right Choice After Shark Attack
Tiffany Johnson experienced an event few others have, and she has lived to share her story. Â Johnson, 33,...
Updates on Prosthetic Rehabilitation Following Partial Hand Amputation
Partial hand amputation is extremely common. According to the oft-cited Ziegler-Graham study on limb loss prevalence in the United...
Upper-limb Prosthetics: Pattern Recognition Shows Practical Promise
Pattern recognition technology has shown promise in providing easier, more intuitive control of myoelectric prosthetic devices over the past...