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Robert Gailey, PhD, PT The biomechanics of amputee running is an interesting area that is useful in clinical application. With...

I'm unable to recall the title of a 1930s movie in which a terminally ill young bride, with perhaps only...

Patricia Metcalf, Orthotist/CMF, A Fitting Image, demonstrates placement of a breast form in a swimsuit to Mildred Holtz, mastectomy patient....

It's June 2001, and I'm standing on the production floor of the Toyota Car Company in Toyota City, Japan. I'm...

Miki Fairley October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Many O&P facility staffs include caring, knowledgeable certified mastectomy fitters (CMFs), many...

A new kid on the block, Freedom Innovations Inc. (FI), made its formal debut into the prosthetics world by announcing...

Inclusion of national competitive bidding for orthotics and prosthetics in the Baucus-Grassley Beneficiary Access and Medicare Payment Equity Package doesn't...

Education and fellowship shared top billing at the recent Canadian Assoc-iation of Prosthetists and Orthotists (CAPO) biennial meeting in Edmonton,...

Barnaby, a 12-year-old leopard-spot Appaloosa, is now a "real horse" againthanks to a new prosthetic foot. Barnaby has suffered foot...

Byron H. Whitaker, CPO After emerging from reorganization under Chapter 11, the "new and improved" Rehab Designs of America (RDA)...