The most difficult patient Sheila Clemens ever treated was a man in his 20s who came to her after a crash that resulted in a transfemoral amputation, caused a stroke,
O&P interventions are most effective when they are integrated into a multidisciplinary rehabilitation strategy. In this issue, we explore how practitioners can work with physical therapists and patients’ caregivers to
More than 25 years have passed since the first time I entered an intensive care room where a patient was recovering from severe burns, but I can still vividly recall
Clinicians who regularly see patients for custom foot orthotics are used to working with a wide variety of physicians’ notes. Sometimes they will be very precise, specifying the material, the
As vice president of business development at Click Medical, I truly believe that our business can’t be successful unless our customers—the prosthetists and O&P practices we work with—are successful first.
In August 2007, Merlyna Valentine was an elementary school principal planning for another school year in LaPlace, Louisiana, when she first felt an excruciating pain in her side. While she
I went to a restaurant with some friends on a perfect summer evening, and the hostess greeted us by telling us they were closing early because the staff had been
