Making a Team Work: Assembling a Rehabilitation Team in O&P Private Practices
Most healthcare professionals agree that teamwork provides comprehensive patient care and better functional outcomes for patients. But unless you work...
Best Care: Why Scope of Practice Matters
Who can provide a medical or allied healthcare-related service is determined by scope-of-practice standards and licensure laws. Who should provide...
What You Bring to the Table
Summer is upon us, and along with the rising mercury and sprouting gardens comes the inevitable summer barbeque. If your...
Marketing vs. Sales: What’s the Best Approach for Your Practice?
Healthcare has evolved into a commercial marketplace. Increasingly, the practice-patient relationship resembles a consumer relationship driven by the economic pressures...
Sports News
CAF Raises $166,000 for Veterans In its first official event since becoming the Challenged Athletes Foundation's initial chapter, CAF-Florida raised...
Wendy Beattie: Engineer Finds True Calling
The aerospace industry's loss has been the orthotic and prosthetic profession's gain. Beattie has been described as going beyond the...
Five Questions for Robert L. Rhodes, MPA, CO
Robert L. Rhodes wasn't born an O&P man. It took the lure of extra cash and coaxing by a man...
Slippery SUDs: Understanding FDA Regulations on the Reuse of Single-Use Medical Devices
The unregulated practice of reusing medical devices that are either labeled or otherwise intended for use on a single patient...
Sean Brame: Unstoppable 11-Year Old Delivers Message of Hope, Perseverance
An autumn day in April 2005 that started with a game of soccer ended with a trip to the emergency...
Celebrating a Victory
The Oregon State Legislature recently passed into law comprehensive coverage for orthotic and prosthetic care. Sponsored by Rep. Peter Buckley...
