Academy Annual Meeting & Scientific Symposium: Educate, Influence, Empower
More than 1,600 people attended the 2019 National Meeting of the American Academy of Orthotics and Prosthetics (the Academy) March...
Editor’s Note – May 2019
Optimal provision of healthcare services requires looking beyond just treating the specific disorder, disease, or mobility issue the patient presents...
How Does Caring for a Child With Disabilities Impact Quality of Life?
It's easy to direct our clinical attention directly to patients and focus on their immediate physical needs. However, understanding...
Mario Armendariz Ortega: Amputation Doesn’t Set Brother Apart
At first glance, most people will have a nearly impossible time telling identical seven-year-old twins Mario and Devin Armendariz...
Preparing Young Patients With Cancer for Amputation
The epidemiology and outcomes associated with limb absence in the pediatric population are very different than those of the...
Regulations and Remolding: Where Cranial Remolding and the FDA Meet
Throughout history, cultures around the world have used the malleability of an infant's skull to intentionally deform it through...
Tech Tools for the Business Owner
I once did a presentation titled "The Adolescent Years" about how practices operate and how business owners tend to...
Unity Through Diversity, Part 2: Women Executive Leaders Guide O&P Education, Credentialing
With a decade or more of service each, three women executive leaders have been guiding the education, training, and certification...
Why Compete With Your Customers?
For many years orthotics and prosthetics flourished in combination. Eventually though, their paths diverged and recently they've been in stark...