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...
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a substantial problem, affecting as much as 10 percent of the general population and...
If you conduct a Google search using the term "amputee falls" the first return is a link to a...
The epidemiology and outcomes associated with limb absence in the pediatric population are very different than those of the...
Most readers will be familiar with the parable of the turkeys that wanted to fly. Watching the sky and...
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 series of articles describes the progress of prosthetic technology toward powered lower-limb prostheses. In...
In "Growing O&P in Developing Countries" in this issue, sources describe challenges associated with making O&P nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) successful...
The mammoth American healthcare system rarely appears to be too interested in the world of O&P. On those rare occasions...
In addition to the physical retraining that often accompanies an acquired disability, there are a number of emotional adjustments and...
In considering the wealth of investigation that has been done to evaluate the efficacy of AFOs, no population has received...
The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP) is hosting the 2022 Virtual Congressional Fly-in on Thursday,...
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