Lower Extremity Review
The Sigvaris Cotton Series closed-toe calf compression products will now be available with a grip-top in two color options, black and crispa (a medium brown), for men and women. For patients with edema in the knee area, the new grip-top feature can ensure that the...
The Grid from Trigger Point Performance is a self-therapy tool that can be used to massages aches and pains in the muscles or to achieve a total body strength workout. The design of this self-therapy tool features “distrodensity” zones that mimic different types of...
ComfortFit Labs announces a new low-cost lease-to-own program for the company’s Tom-Cat in-office scanning systems. The Tom-Cat system provides an easy nine-second scan per foot, on-screen prescription form and data, and a no-mess casting system, with no need to send...
Lower extremity practitioners were among the first responders after two explosions ravaged the Boston Marathon last month, and are continuing to help heal the hundreds of victims who lost limbs or experienced other traumatic lower extremity injuries.
By Emily Delzell
Flat, flexible footwear sold by Mequon, WI-based Dr. Comfort is associated with significant reductions in knee adduction moment (KAM) in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA), according to a small proof-of-principle study e-published on April 23 by Arthritis &...
Seattle-based Frazier Healthcare announced last month its acquisition of Orthotic Holdings Inc (OHI), which is headquartered in Markham, Ontario. OHI is a holding company of Langer Biomechanics, based in Ronkonkoma, NY; Arizona AFO, located in Mesa; and The Orthotic...
A multimillion-dollar donation from a local family to The Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus will fund construction of the largest dedicated sports medicine complex in the country, according to an April release from the university. The 140,000-square-foot...
In recognition of May as Huntington Disease Awareness Month the Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HDSA) has launched the Faces of Huntington’s Disease campaign. Each day in May, the campaign presents a different story from patients, caregivers, scientists,...
The Pedorthic Foundation in May named two pedorthists to its board of directors, Matthew Mirones, CPed, CPO, and Anne Brussok, CPed. Mirones, a former president of the Pedorthic Footcare Association, has practiced orthopedic rehabilitation for more than 35 years, and...
Allard USA’s TeamUP—the first national team of people with foot drop—took part in its inaugural event in April at the BB&T Gate City Half Marathon and 8K in Greensboro, NC. Allard USA, headquartered in Rockaway, NJ, formed the eight-person team of brace-wearing...
Hanger Clinic has signed on as a 2013 Bronze-level sponsor of the Orthotic & Prosthetic Activities Foundation (OPAF), the foundation announced in April. OPAF noted this sponsorship carries on a long tradition of support by Hanger since OPAF’s inception in 1995....
A small study points to a “decoupling” effect between neurological and mechanical aspects of the ankle joint among some people with recurrent sprains and resultant functional ankle instability (FAI), reported investigators in a Journal of Sport Rehabilitation paper e-published on April 9.
Women who run barefoot with a midfoot or forefoot strike pattern have higher Achilles tendon (AT) loads—and, potentially, a higher risk of tendinopathy—than rearfoot strikers, according to research e-published May 3 in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering.
College athletes who sustain a concussion are almost four times as likely as their counterparts who avoid the brain injury to subsequently injure lower extremity muscles, according to research presented at the 2013 American Medical Society for Sports Medicine conference held in April in San Diego.
Studies presented at the 2013 World Congress on Osteoarthritis, held in April in Philadelphia, provide more evidence that knee bracing can improve pain and gait mechanics in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA)—improvements that are magnified with increased wear time.
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