
January 2005
edit post Billinda Newton, RTP by The O&P EDGE January 1, 2005 Billinda Newton, RTP Faith P&O Services Inc. Concord, North Carolina What is the best advice you’ve ever received?”Your
edit post Billinda Newton, RTP by The O&P EDGE January 1, 2005 Billinda Newton, RTP Faith P&O Services Inc. Concord, North Carolina What is the best advice you’ve ever received?”Your
Whatever your connection with the field of O&P, you are bound to come across many people that inspire you and touch your heart. Recently such a person and her family
Julio Montoya, whose right leg was amputated below the knee due to a landmine explosion in the jungles of Peru, could be called a “walking machine.” Instead of overwhelming him,
To help insure safe and comfortable travel for persons with limb loss, the ACA has been working closely with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to establish new screening guidelines and
Latvia may soon have its own national standing amputee ice hockey team after a recent demonstration of the international team playing against Latvia’s professional Zemgale team. The event was the
The American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association (AOPA) has released the latest O&P industry statistics in the 2004 AOPA Operating Performance and Compensation (OPC) Report, giving O&P facilities new benchmarks for
Fighting sultry heat, humidity, fierce wind and rain, dodging hostile vegetation and poisonous snakes, pulling dozens of bloodsucking leeches off arms and legs, rappelling down steep cliffs, climbing up mountainsides,
As a student of orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it became readily apparent to me that there was a stark limitation in the research
Many new amputees are under the mistaken impression that the loss of their limb means the loss of mobility and a sedentary lifestyle. However, statistics show that most amputees are
“The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker tape parades for us, no monuments created in our
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