edit post Advancing Care for Upper-limb Loss by ANDREA SPRIDGEN September 1, 2018 Providing upper-limb prosthetic care is often viewed as particularly difficult because of the complexity of trying to
Providing upper-limb prosthetic care is often viewed as particularly difficult because of the complexity of trying to replicate the function of the human hand. Additionally, upper-limb prosthetic rehabilitation has been
In our years in business handling over 100,000 O&P claims per year in 22 states, CBS Medical Billing and Consulting has acquired some important resources and strategies that help
HBO’s science fiction series Westworld is based in an amusement park populated with robotic creatures whose advanced construction and programming make them indistinguishable from humans. The realistic look, feel, and
Dear Editor, I’m writing in response to The O&P EDGE’s August articles on 3D printing. The issue of 3D printing isn’t so much that digital innovation will make prosthetists and
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Orthotic and Prosthetic Education and Research Foundation (OPERF), a nonprofit organization established to raise the standards of research in O&P. Founded
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
The following is a firsthand account of lessons learned from the ten-week fellowship I experienced this summer as the Inaugural Fellow of the National Association for the Advancement of
Tiffany Johnson experienced an event few others have, and she has lived to share her story. Johnson, 33, was attacked by a shark while snorkeling in the Bahamas
Partial hand amputation is extremely common. According to the oft-cited Ziegler-Graham study on limb loss prevalence in the United States, amputations of the fingers and hand account for 92
