Meeting the Prosthetic Needs of Patients With Greater Body Mass
As O&P practitioners encounter more patients who are overweight, they need to be creative in finding solutions and may have...
Symmetry for Symmetry’s Sake: A Beneficial Goal in Prosthetic Gait?
Nearly 30 years ago, authors David Winter, PhD, PEng, and Susan Sienko, BSc, challenged some fundamental assumptions associated with prosthetic...
Adherence Among Users of Orthopedic Footwear and Lower-limb Orthoses
During my orthotic residency, a physical therapist and I were discussing orthotic options for a patient with post-stroke hemiparesis. The...
Progress by Challenging Assumptions
In this issue of The O&P EDGE, dedicated to meeting the challenges of lower-limb O&P interventions, several of our articles have...
Rio 2016: Canoe Sprint and Triathlon Come to the 2016 Summer Paralympics
On September 7-18, worldwide attention will turn to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the 15th Summer Paralympic Games. Over the...
DoD Warrior Games Held in West Point
The 2016 U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Warrior Games were held at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York,...
Max Conserva: Self-advocacy Fuels an Improved KAFO Design
Photograph courtesy of Jeffrey P. Worthington. Max Conserva, 35, can often be found working out or teaching a class for...
The Q-check KAFO/AFO
One difficult patient presentation many O&P practitioners have encountered is severe genu recurvatum of 15-30 degrees with a lateral rotational...
The Orthotic and Prosthetic Alliance: The Sum of Its Parts
The Orthotic and Prosthetic Alliance (the Alliance) is a unifying force established to elicit the cooperation and coordination of like-minded...
O&P Professionals Deserve Fair Reimbursement
Do you know what gets my blood boiling? When the reimbursement world treats me as a vendor rather than as...
