Across the State or Around the World: Telerehabilitation Technologies Cover the Distance
Advances in telecommunication technologies such as videoconferencing, smartphones, tablets, Wi-Fi, and broadband, along with e-mail and POTS (plain old telephone...
Building Relationships
An O&P student from Northwestern University Prosthetics-Orthotics Center works with a patient in ROMP's Zacapa, Guatemala, clinic. Photograph by ROMP...
Providing Evidence-based Care in Low-, Middle-income Countries
Photographs courtesy of Gail Palethorpe/Shutterstock.com. Several years ago I attended a meeting where a young practitioner reported on a medical...
Deathe and Miller: Canadian Pioneers in Prosthetic Outcome Measures
Apparently unaffected by the 2,300 miles that separate their physical locations, physiatrist A. Barry Deathe, MD, FRCP(C), of London, Ontario,...
Academy Society Spotlight: Standing Postural Changes While Wearing a Lumbar Sacral Orthosis With Varying Degrees of Lordosis
Introduction Lumbar sacral orthoses (LSOs) are commonly prescribed treatment devices for spinal disorders such as low back pain. Typically, the...
Pitfalls of Waiving Patient Balances
Many O&P practitioners will tell you that they decided to enter this profession to help people, rather than to make...
Empowering Local Providers to Provide Prosthetics in Less-resourced Countries
How do you provide prosthetics to patients in the developing world? Affordability and empowerment of local providers are the keys...
Academy Meeting: Something Bold, Something New
More than 1,700 O&P professionals participated in the 42nd Annual Meeting & Scientific Symposium of the American Academy of Orthotists...
The Importance of In-Country O&P Care
Last April, a team of specialists from Canada and the United States traveled to Ukraine to provide prosthetic care and...
Making Connections, Gaining Perspectives
Too often, technology intended to connect us seems to do the opposite as we spend more time engaging with electronic...
