Adjustable Prosthesis Helps Boxer Go the Distance
Hughes, left, with teammates at an Adaptive Jiu Jitsu clinic. When Rustin Hughes woke from his second amputation surgery on...
New Technology Produces Sense of Wetness in Prosthetic Limbs
A team of researchers at the University of Southampton and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne (EPFL), a research institute, has...
From Change, New O&P Business Models Emerge
Over the last two decades or so, healthcare has faced technological changes and digital advances, personalized medicine, electronic medical records,...
Amputee, 100, Celebrates a Long, Healthy Life
When you meet Weber, who lives in an assisted living facility in Arvada, Colorado, for the first time, you come...
O&P Resident Hopes to Be a Blueprint for Clinicians and Patients With Limb Loss
In March 2013, Taushima “Shima” Nixon’s car died at an intersection in Greenville, North Carolina, where she was an undergraduate...
Today’s O&P Workforce: Meeting Needs and Challenges Through Better Workplace Culture
When you ask employees in the O&P profession (or just about any occupation) to give their impression of what it...
Volunteerism Thrives in O&P
Ask volunteers to recall one of their most memorable experiences, and they’ll likely find it hard to name just one....
Living With Limb Loss Is a Team Sport
Lacey Henderson, who lost her left leg in 1999 due to failed chemotherapy trials for a rare soft tissue pediatric...
High School Students Get Glimpse of a Career in O&P
Purdy describes her prosthesis to the students. Photograph by Betta Ferrendelli. Colin Schweich, Valerie Vo, Madison Raber, Tyler Bruken, and...
Mantra Helps Former Marine Thrive
On December 1, 2011, Nick Kimmel was a young marine on his second deployment in Afghanistan. That morning his unit...
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