O&P’s Role in Fall Prevention
When Séamus Kennedy, BEng (Mech), CPed, FAAOP(A), president and co-owner, Hersco Ortho Labs, New York, speaks about fall risk at ...
The Next Step: How Markerless Motion Capture and AI Are Transforming Gait Analysis in O&P
In a clinic in New Hampshire, a prosthetist pulls out his smartphone and records a patient walking down the hallway ...
Prescribed Precision: Dosing AFO Stiffness for Maximum Outcomes
An AFO’s fundamental function is to manipulate the orientation and progression of force about the body to improve alignment and ...
Fair Reimbursement for Heavy-Duty Components
Individual prosthetic component selection can be tricky, especially when faced with reduced fee schedules, lengthy administrative requirements, and patients with ...
Relevance of Gait-Related Posture Casting in Lower-Limb Orthotics
Many of us have had the pleasure of witnessing the rapid evolution of O&P through the years, but despite the ...
Editor’s Note–November 2025
Even those who are not O&P professionals likely know someone who uses foot orthotics or a lower-limb orthosis to overcome ...
Medicare Enrollment: All You Need to Know
Many of the topics I write about come directly from the questions our clients and O&P practice owners bring to ...
The Kirby Medial Heel Skive
Controlling excessive foot pronation is an important aspect of managing many lower-limb pathologies such as plantar fasciitis, posterior tibial tendon ...
