Academy Society Spotlight

Photograph courtesy of Dreaming and Working Together. A characteristic shown by many O&P professionals is humanitarianism. A humanitarian as defined by Oxford Learner’s Dictionary is “a person who tries to...

As clinicians, we are well aware of the advantages of a team approach to prosthetic rehabilitation. In school we are taught the benefits of the patient-centered model to rehabilitation after...

While fitting hundreds of cranial remolding orthoses a year, I have encountered confounding problems that are more time-consuming to address than fitting helmets on wiggly infants. These problems are certainly...

Prosthetists and orthotists are responsible for treating the musculoskeletal dysfunction of their patients, although these conditions and disorders commonly involve more than physical symptoms. Treating all patients the same by...

Pedorthists like to maintain that good health starts from the ground up, and it is widely appreciated that foot health is an important key to overall health. This point was...

  Payers and other key stakeholders are increasingly expecting more evidence to support and justify healthcare decisions. Evidence-based practice is an approach to healthcare in which clinicians incorporate scientific evidence...

  A few months ago, I treated a bright and mature 12-year-old girl with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). She and her parents were there to discuss the differences in a...

There are over 270,000 people with transfemoral amputations in the United States, with around 40,000 new patients each year.1 Many of them use prosthetic devices to regain independence and mobility; however,...

PROLOGUE It was my turn to drive. There were nine of us in an oversize grey Chevy Suburban driving along one of the most barren expanses of highway in California....

  One of the smallest demographic groups cared for by orthotics and prosthetics professionals are members of the pediatric population who present with acquired or congenital upper-limb differences and have...