Seeking the Perfect Marriage in Prosthetic Liners
Photograph courtesy of Ohio Willow Wood. Otto Bock liner inspector Rocio Holguin. Photograph courtesy of Otto Bock HealthCare. Suppose you...
Custom Options Address Challenging Cases
The wide array of prefabricated prosthetic liners available today can meet the needs of the majority of amputees. However, there...
Embracing New and Advanced Materials
For technicians, using advanced material in O&P makes way for lighter, more durable devices. A socket fabricated with polytol resin....
The New EDGE Direct
The O&P EDGE, the industry's most-read O&P professional publication, and oandp.com, the industry's online portal, have joined forces to bring...
Veterans Administration 101
Since founding Ability Prosthetics & Orthotics Inc. in 2004, I have become increasingly intrigued by the Veterans Administration (VA) hospital...
IAAF Denies Pistorius’ Campaign to Compete Against Able-Bodied Sprinters
It is all over...for now. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) barred sprinter Oscar Pistorius from competing in the...
Finding Solutions, Not Problems
Kevin Carroll has devoted his life to helping people, and he has changed the face of prosthetics in the process....
EMG ‘Hides in Plain Sight’ in Spinal Stenosis Diagnosis
Back pain wears many disguises; unmasking the real culprit can require some skillful detective work to arrive at an accurate...
How to Push the Reset Button
I am on the way to part three of my residency story. I wish I could say this has been...
Five Questions for Tony Wickman, RTPO
Tony Wickman was an experienced technician and lab manager before he opened Freedom Fabrication Inc., Havana, Florida, in 1992, and...