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A few years ago, my daughter sustained an injury while playing soccer and required a below-knee cast. The technician who applied the cast was an expert, and his performance was...

  In 2002, Christopher Hovorka,  Robert Gregor, and Mark Geil led a team of educators, clinicians, engineers, and scientists to launch the nation’s first entry-level master’s degree in O&P at...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued two new regulations that impact patient access to O&P care. On December 28, 2021, CMS issued a long-delayed final rule...

Image: Crustoff/stock.adobe.com Although it may be too soon to identify the forms they will ultimately take, O&P professionals agree that the pandemic experience has wrought lasting changes—changes that will continue...

Image: Crustoff/stock.adobe.com Although it may be too soon to identify the forms they will ultimately take, O&P professionals agree that the pandemic experience has wrought lasting changes—changes that will continue...

Images: A. A. Marks, A Treatise on Artificial Limbs Among my prized possessions is a collection of 15 volumes of the Manual of Artificial Limbs published by A. A. Marks....

Image: elana.bs/stock.adobe.com As business models continue to evolve in the O&P profession, mobile clinics have emerged as a way to meet patients’ diverse needs. The O&P EDGE reached out to...

Chances are that the above scenario is rather unusual. In today’s busy practices, it is challenging to simultaneously have the adequate time, energy, and emotional capacity to have such successful...

When Joan MacDonald’s foot was amputated, it opened a new world to her. It was a world without pain and one that she felt deserved to be celebrated. MacDonald, the...

In 1995, Christopher Reeve sustained a cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) that resulted in quadriplegia. Reeve was known to millions around the world for playing the title role in the...