Lower Extremity Review
Nexus 2 is the newest version of Vicon’s data capture software for sports, rehabilitation, gait analysis, and biomechanical research. New major updates address speed, methodology, and accuracy challenges faced by both clinicians and…
Eric Franklin’s new book, Fascia Release and Balance, educates the reader on how connective tissues integrate the body’s components and facilitate all movements. This knowledge is reinforced by Franklin Method ball-rolling and imagery…
Stretching Inc. presents stretching as a simple, gentle activity that can be done by anyone, anywhere, at any time. “Garden Stretches” provides detailed instructions and illustrations of stretches to do before, during, and after gardening to help…
Squid, a dynamic cold compression system, combines sequential compression with cold therapy. The cold compression directs edema away from the extremities and toward the heart, promoting venous return and increasing local circulation.
Rocktape now offers RockGuards II, designed to protect the shins of the wearer during physical activity such as rope climbs, CrossFit, dead lifts, and cleans and snatches.
The new Armor1 Ankle Roll Guard is designed to prevent ankle sprains by cushioning the ankle during an inversion, or “roll.” Unlike a brace, the Armor1 Ankle Roll Guard…
Pro-Tech Orthopedics is the exclusive North American distributor of the Orthotimer, an electronic monitoring system that documents the wear time of orthopedic devices for outpatients. The heart of the Orthotimer system is a small microsensor…
The PF Sock is a specialist-designed night splint that is intended to provide an optimum stretch of the plantar fascia and speed recovery. The PF Sock is designed to hold the ankle joint in a neutral position while dorsiflexing the toes—a combination that can…
Psychologists tell us that the symmetry of a person’s face influences whether he or she is perceived as attractive. But when it comes to rehabilitation of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, some types of symmetry are more desirable than others.
By Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor
Pulseboot footwear is designed to improve diabetic foot ulcer healing, reduce limb loss, and help lesions stay healed. Pulseboot offloads pressure using an advanced material (D3O) and contoured insole design. A discreet rigid offloader controls unwanted foot motion…
A phase I/II trial of Pluristem Therapeutics’ expanded placental cell product for treatment of muscle injury after total hip arthroplasty (THA) found significant improvements in maximal voluntary muscle contraction force six months postsurgery in both operated and nonoperated gluteal muscle.
Compression garment manufacturer Sigvaris in January partnered with physical therapist and wound care and lymphedema management expert Robyn Bjork, MPT, CWS, WCC, CLT-LANA, CLWT, to help support innovation for patients with lymphedema, chronic venous insufficiency, and venous ulcers.
The 13th Diabetic Foot Global Conference (DFcon) 2015 is scheduled for March 19-21 at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles.
Birmingham, AL-based Hanger Clinic in early 2015 changed the name of its Amputee Empowerment Partners Peer Support Program to the AMPOWER program (empoweringamputees.org).
The Alexandria, VA-based Foundation for Physical Therapy announced February 5 that it has awarded Brown University in Providence, RI, $2.5 million to establish the Center on Health Services Training and Research (CoHSTAR) over the next five years.
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