Prosthetic Alignment and the Lake Wobegon Effect
There is an old clinical adage, “Have you ever met the second-best prosthetist?” You may be familiar with the classic...
What’s State-of-the-Art With Upper-limb Prostheses?
By its nature, upper-limb prosthetic technology has an immediate impact on the user’s social circle because the devices are more...
The O&P Patient’s Orbit: Applying Contextual Knowledge and Systems-based Care
ONE of the unwritten rules of O&P pediatric care is, “If you fit the child, you fit the parents first.”...
How Systems Affect Innovation
Systems can have a direct effect on how healthy and flexible your organization is with respect to inherent chaos that...
O&P Encroachment and the Mandela Effect
Professional Encroachment is generally regarded as a real threat by orthotists and prosthetists. The thought that other allied healthcare professionals...
Causes and Cures: Systemic Anxiety and Burnout in O&P
Much has been written recently about the degree of anxiety in healthcare professions resulting in a high burnout rate that...
Relationships and Innovation
For an O&P leadership survey, I defined three distinct groups of people: those who are technical-, human-, or conceptual-oriented.1 When...
Sense of Oneness: How Patients Gain Intuitive Control
Have you ever felt “one” with your car or another piece of equipment such as a trusty hand tool, fishing...
Future Innovation in Pediatric Care
The needs of pediatric O&P patients can be dramatically different than those of adults. This also holds true for the...
Five Ways to Lie With Statistics— Or at Least Tell a Better Story
Using the Statistical Fog to Tell a Compelling Story Certainly, statistics promise to extend our understanding beyond our...
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