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It was just a question, a brief comment among many others at a two-day meeting, but it stuck with me. I had helped organize the 2012 State-of-the-Science meeting on microprocessor-controlled...

Watching a pro football game can be a bit nerve-wracking when one of the players is wearing an AFO that you customized and fitted.   Mike Muratore, CPO, area clinic...

The term social distancing came into common usage in the past 18 months for reasons familiar to all of us. In the context of the global pandemic, social distancing involves...

INTRODUCTION TO ADVANCED PRACTICE Advanced practice is not a new concept in healthcare, our nursing colleagues have been leading the way for over 50 years, developing the first roles of...

While the need for O&P services is universal, the way in which care is delivered varies not only between countries with resource differences, but also between industrialized countries. The O&P EDGE contacted...

In recent weeks, the O&P profession has successfully advanced its policy agenda for the 117th Congress. In the midst of Congress' continued response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, key...

MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE DRAWN TO O&P ARE ATTRACTED BY THE POTENTIAL TO HELP PATIENTS AND THUS HAVE FOCUSED THEIR EFFORTS ON PATIENT CARE AND IMPROVING OUTCOMES. BUT TO ENSURE THAT CLINICS CONTINUE...

Inside Boston's Hynes Convention Center during the American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association National Assembly this month, a handful of O&P business owners are meeting privately with Barry Smith, president and...

  To stay top-of-mind with referral sources and patients, the best O&P practices constantly tell their stories and establish themselves as experts in their communities. Getting to that point can...

Growing up on his family's farm in South Africa, Francois Van Der Watt, CPO, always assumed he would become a farmer. But a chance meeting in college took him down...