Billing Decoded: When Can This Be Replaced? Medicare Frequency Limitations for Lower-limb Prostheses
Many of us know the struggles of the reasonable useful lifetime (RUL) and same/similar denials with orthoses when it comes...
Residual Upper-limb Optimization: Surgeon and Prosthetist Collaboration
“When a patient shows up in your office with a less-than-ideal residual limb, it can be a pivotal moment. Do...
Is Sock Ply Irrelevant?
Since the advent of requiring documentation to justify socket replacements, sock ply has been used as the gold standard for...
Editor’s Note–February 2023
Residual limbs that are difficult to fit, patients’ ability to connect cognitively with their prostheses, and the economics of advanced...
Sense of Oneness: How Patients Gain Intuitive Control
Have you ever felt “one” with your car or another piece of equipment such as a trusty hand tool, fishing...
The Economics of Innovation in Upper-limb Prosthetics
The inspiration for this article was a September 2021 special issue of the Canadian Prosthetics and Orthotics Journal titled “Health...
O&P Wages Versus Inflation, Unraveling the Mystery You Didn’t Know Existed
Minerva Studio/stock.adobe.com Every other year the American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association (AOPA) collects data on O&P companies and O&P wages....