March 2014 - Table of Contents
- Rough and Tumble: Meeting the Prosthetic Durability Challenges of Your Youngest Patients
Feature - Risk Factors for Plagiocephaly
Feature - Standing Out by Trying to Fit In
Feature - Measuring the Usefulness and Importance of Outcome Measures
Feature - HHS Delays ALJ Hearing Scheduling by Two Years: Continues to Fail to Adhere to Its Own Regulations
Feature - Reversing Scoliosis and Brace Treatment of a Proximal Structural Curve
Academy Society Spotlight - C. Ralph Hooper Jr., CPO: Scoliosis Bracing Pioneer
Industry Leader - Pedorthic Treatment of Pediatric Foot Problems
Stepping Out - Getting the Most from Your Practice by Looking Within: Part 1 of A Four-Part Series
Better Business - Master’s Program Profile Series: University of Hartford and St. Petersburg College
Education Outlook - Designing a Paralympian’s Device
Shop Talk - Fernando “Nandito” Gallego: Spina Bifida Doesn’t Slow Down Five-Year-Old
Today’s Consumer - O&P: We’ve Come a Long Way
Perspective - Erin Rice, CO, ATC
Face to Face - Billing and Collections Q&A
Got FAQs? - Notes from US ISPO: PacRim 2014
Industry Review - Associations - “Secret Santa” Makes a Young Girl’s Wish Come True
Industry Review - Consumer - Christmas Wishes
Viewpoint - New Alpha Liner Absorbs Heat and Reduces Sweat
WillowWood brings temperature control to prosthetic liners for the first time with Outlast®, the original heat management technology that was developed for NASA. Now amputees have a viable solution for a comfortable prosthetic liner that works to delay the onset of sweat with the Alpha® SmartTemp Liner. - Archives from The O&P EDGE
Showcase Products
- PEL Offers the Jet Pediatric Knee Brace
- Proximal Lock
- Compressogrip Shrinkers with New XL A/K Size
- Optimize Your Foot Orthotic Services
- Keasy Thermoformable Cones for Making Custom, Fast, and Cost-Effective Liners
- New Tempo Foot from College Park
- Changing from Gel to Silicone is Easy with Iceross Dermo Uniform Liners by Össur
- FLAG: Force Limiting Auto Grasp for Motion Control ETD and Hand
- Order the 2014 Limb Loss Resource Guide
- The New ALPS Guardian Suction Liner
- Endolite is Now Offering a Free Guide to Medicare, Audits, and Planning Ahead
- SoftSHELL Covers from PEL
- Symphony Knee
- Try the New RUSH81 Foot by Ability Dynamics
- Endolite Introduces the avalon
- OTS Double Adjustable Ankle Joint
- Tamarack Introduces the GlideWear Prosthetic Liner Patch
- Fit, Finish, and Roll...with the New Freedom DynAdapt
- medi USA Introduces the Spinomed IV
- Becker Offers the Camber Axis Hinge Modular Upright Kit
- Shape To Fit Socks and Compression Hosiery by Dr. Comfort
- New for the Kiddos—KiddieROCKER
- Hersco Ortho Labs Announces the Patented Arch Suspender from Richie Labs
- medi USA Introduces the 4Seal TFS Liner
- Becker Introduces the BLISS (Bail Lock Integrated Strap System)
- ABC—Celebrating 65 Years of Excellence!
- Go Sleeveless with the Unity Sleeveless Vacuum System by Össur
- The 1C30 Trias
- New! Now Available in Black!
- Maximum Shock Value—with the New Freedom Agilix
- Becker Introduces the New Compact Double Action Ankle Joint
- New Binary Swivels from TRS
- Richie Braces Now at Hersco!
- A Fully Articulating Biomechanical Prosthetic Finger
- NUPOC Master's in Prosthetics-Orthotics