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One of the most memorable characters in the recent history of U.S. prosthetics was Stephen C. Jacobsen, PhD, the primary inventor of the Utah Arm and the founder of Motion...

Ron Manganiello has been described as "the godfather of modern American O&P" and yet, Italian lineage notwithstanding, it was far from clear that this boy from Brooklyn, New York, would...

James "Jay" Martin, CP/L, FAAOP, founder and president of Martin Bionics Innovations, Oklahoma City, is passionate about invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and he wants to ignite that flame in others....

Photographs courtesy of Anita Liberman-Lampear. Anita Liberman-Lampear, MA, president of the American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association (AOPA), greets new projects and challenges with energy, zest, and enthusiasm, and tackles them...

Dennis Janisse, CPed, is one of the most recognized names in the U.S. pedorthics profession. He has been involved in the profession for four decades and has been working on...

Hooper marks the trim lines for fitting the Charleston Bending Brace. Photographs courtesy of Ralph Hooper. As a young practitioner, C. Ralph Hooper Jr., CPO, was fascinated by the fabrication...

In Irish poet Séamus Heaney's 1995 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, he reflected that his career "became a journey where each point of arrival...turned out to be a stepping stone rather...

Joan E. Sanders, PhD, has been interested in science and mathematics ever since she was young. "I especially loved doing experiments, and when I was a child I was always...

Few names in the world of podiatry and biomechanics are as well known as Justin Wernick, DPM. His career as a practitioner, innovator, lab owner, and international academic lecturer spans...

Carl Caspers, CPO, widely recognized as the father of vacuum suspension, was a pioneer in using scientific inquiry and research to develop groundbreaking products in the O&P industry early in...