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I was reading Allison Pohle’s reporting in the Wall Street Journal about The Gund Co., a family-owned manufacturer that puts employee well-being at the center of its management approach while […]

Anton G. Johannesson, PhD, CPO, Össur Clinics, writes that unique human qualities mean that there cannot be a standard for “optimal” prosthetic interface output. He goes on to address the […]

Hacquebord “works in some of orthopedic surgery’s most technologically ambitious territory,” Becker’s Spine Review said, and, in discussing the future of bionic reconstruction surgery and increasingly sophisticated prosthetic technology, he […]

I read a piece in Fast Company by Mark Crowley about a senior leader who had mastered the art of playing it safe. In meetings, the man never offered an […]

In The Harris Poll on behalf of Strategic Education and Workforce Edge, 1,514 US healthcare workers and 304 healthcare employers responded to the survey conducted over three weeks this summer. […]

Those who choose an O&P career are usually motivated by a shared desire to provide enabling solutions to those with disabilities. Faced with an unusual patient need in the exotic […]

Although in many cases people with upper-limb amputations want and need multiple prosthetic devices as well as specialized terminal attachments that enable greater capabilities and open more opportunities for both […]

Ask upper-limb prosthetics providers about the strengths and weaknesses of myoelectric and body-powered prostheses and the reasons for preferring one or adopting both, and you’ll get a collection of responses […]

Our archives offer more than 20 years of magazine articles and news items about any imaginable topic, technology, or policy in O&P. You can search by topic, author, and more. […]

The sensor device study in China was tested on a robotic prosthetic hand and with three people with transtibial amputations. Aside from warning users how to react to the type […]