As an O&P clinician, I was highly motivated by the challenge of designing devices that worked, not in replacement of, but in concert with a limb. The way patients described how improved mobility with their AFOs helped them keep up with grandchildren or quelled worries of losing their job, or how the orthoses became their “magic legs” reinforced my idea that AFOs were the underdog of clinical care—perhaps underestimated, but highly effective.
I maintained such optimism until one case made me question if providing AFOs was a sustainable practice.
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