Preventing the Burn: Is There a Role for AFOs in Mitigating the Pain of Claudication?
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a substantial problem, affecting as much as 10 percent of the general population and...
Can We Catch Them Before They Fall?
If you conduct a Google search using the term "amputee falls" the first return is a link to a...
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...
Capacity Equals Performance… Doesn’t It?
Most readers will be familiar with the parable of the turkeys that wanted to fly. Watching the sky and...
Therapeutic Gait Training: What Prosthetists Need to Know
Of the estimated 1.6 million people in the United States living with limb loss, approximately 1.3 million (86 percent) have...
The Dawn of Powered Lower-Limb Prostheses: Part 3
The Dawn of Powered Lower-Limb Prostheses series of articles describes the progress of prosthetic technology toward powered lower-limb prostheses. In...
Lessons from Scotland: Best Practices in the Use of AFOs Following Stroke
The mammoth American healthcare system rarely appears to be too interested in the world of O&P. On those rare occasions...
Cambodia Trust Strives to Exceed
In "Growing O&P in Developing Countries" in this issue, sources describe challenges associated with making O&P nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) successful...
The Influence of Goals on Early Adaptation to Lower-limb Amputations
In addition to the physical retraining that often accompanies an acquired disability, there are a number of emotional adjustments and...
Delving into the Details: AFO Characteristics in the Management of Post-Stroke Hemiplegia
In considering the wealth of investigation that has been done to evaluate the efficacy of AFOs, no population has received...
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