Orthotics/Prosthetics

• Pistorius runs in Olympic relay final

• August 10, 2012
• Oscar Pistorius and his South African teammates finished eighth in the 4x400-meter relay final held today at the Olympics in London.
  The South Africa team...More »

• Rebuilding Lives

• An Impossible Decision

• O&P Business News, August 2012
• Jeff Waldmuller poses for a photo, holding two oversized checks and proudly showing off the most recent additions to his growing collection of medals...More »

• Clinical News Perspective

• Study Reveals Inconsistency in Computer-aided Socket Manufacturing

• O&P Business News, August 2012
• Manufacturing sockets using computer-aided technologies is popular practice for central fabrication facilities, but there is currently no level of...More »

• Clinical News Perspective

• MIT Engineers Develop Implantable Glucose Fuel Cell

• O&P Business News, August 2012
• Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed an implantable fuel cell that generates power through glucose oxidation, which...More »

• Clinical News Perspective

• New Voluntary Opening Prosthetic Devices Offer no Improvement Over Old Devices

• O&P Business News, August 2012
• Researchers have found no improvements in new voluntary opening prosthetic devices when compared with data from devices in 1987, according to a recent...More »

• Business News

• Al Pike, CP, Talks About a Half-Century of Changes in O&P

• O&P Business News, August 2012
• In April, Al Pike, CP, retired from the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Regional Amputation Center after 48 years in the O&P field. He wants to continue...More »

• Prosthetics

• Prosthetic limbs inadequate for farmer, rancher use

• July 20, 2012
• Farmers and ranchers require more durable, affordable and adaptable prosthetics to facilitate them in their work, according to a recent study published in...More »

• Field Facts

• Archaeologists discover oldest prosthetic leg

• O&P Business News, Fall 2012
• In the suburban area of Turpan in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, archaeologists claim to have discovered a prosthetic leg in an ancient...More »

• Rebuilding Lives

• Dancing Into New Adventures

• O&P Business News, July 2012
• The odds seemed stacked against Steve Mitchell as he anxiously waited for the results to be announced at the Tampa Bay Classic. This was Mitchell’s...More »

• Cover Story

• Take Your Practice to a Higher Level of Patient Care With CAD/CAM

• O&P Business News, July 2012
• As recently as the early 1980s, utilization of computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacture were viewed as experimental and caused concern about...More »

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