Lower Extremity Review
CEP Compression’s new outdoor collection includes the Hiking Merino and Light Merino socks designed to enhance the experience for hikers, campers, and outdoor enthusiasts of all skill levels. Tested by hikers around the world, these socks are engineered to provide targeted, true graduated compression to improve circulation and blood flow where it’s needed most.
The National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) welcomed Kathy Dieringer, EdD, LAT, ATC, as its new president, serving a 3-year term. She has more than 30 years of sports medicine experience and brings with her a deep passion for the athletic training profession and a clear vision for her new role as she succeeds outgoing President, Tory Lindley, MA, ATC.
ComeBack Mobility’s Smart Crutch Tips and the corresponding physician and patient apps are a dynamic tool to instruct correct weight bearing on a limb after an injury or surgery; simply attach the devices to any round crutches.
Researchers from Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and 2 South Korean institutions—Sungkyunkwan University and Chonnam National University—have developed an efficient technique for muscle regeneration and functional restoration in injured rats.
Friendly Shoes look and feel like modern comfort sneakers but patented Easy Shoe Access zippers make them a functional solution for individuals struggling with shoe donning or fitting AFOs/SMOs. Invented by an occupational therapist, users simply fold open, enter, and zip.
Game Ready’s Full Leg Boot is a wrap that provides compression, cold, and heat therapies in order to help speed recovery. The wrap allows for active pneumatic compression with deeper penetrating cold, plus controllable heat or rapid contrast treatment options for outstanding recovery and rehabilitation after a sports injury or surgery.
The new Cheetah® Xceed was designed to enhance running symmetry over earlier models, making it an ideal foot for unilateral and bilateral amputee athletes who are participating in professional sports or recreational activities such as long-distance running.
Arize Orthotic Solution enables podiatrists and orthotists to prescribe custom orthoses tailored to their patients’ specific needs in less than five minutes. For pictures and video click here News Highlights: Disrupting an industry and improving patient wellness: 77%...
So much has happened, I don’t even know where to begin. This is time for reflection and appreciation for where we have been and where we are going. All our lives and businesses have been changed forever. This pandemic has affected us in so many ways personally and professionally. In many ways, our eyes and hearts were opened.
By Rich Dubin, Publisher
3D printing has been waiting to disrupt the orthotics market for years. Only time will tell if the pandemic’s pause afforded clinicians the opportunity to understand the benefits this technology can bring to their practice and their patients. Recent decades have seen a proliferation of technological advances that promise to transform traditional methods of fabricating in-shoe foot orthoses.
By Cary Groner
I joined Langer Biomechanics toward the end of 1979. I believe the orthotic industry was about halfway through the first of 3 distinct periods in its evolution: the development phase. The science, education, and product development work of that era created a level of utilization by clinicians that forever altered the previous use of “arch supports” and replaced…
By Jason Kraus
We see the signs of COVID-19 loosening all around us. Protocols are relaxing, stores are opening, social events are happening, and people are traveling again. At a personal level, we are experiencing a series of post-COVID firsts. Some are small, such as a first trip to the store without a mask, first in-person meeting, or first sporting event.
By Gerald Stark, PhD, MSEM, CPO/L
Lower Extremity Review reminds us of Bob Dylan’s famous line, “the times they are a-changin’,” as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. But one has to wonder a bit why it took the pandemic to induce 1 very large change we all experienced: the shift from centralized to decentralized workspaces, at least for those of us in academia.
By Paul DeVita, PhD
In 2019, I worked in an office/clinic setting seeing multiple patients per day. On a normal day, I would shake their hand, touch as clinically necessary, fit and adjust prostheses. I would talk with colleagues in the breakroom while reaching for adjoining coffee mugs and exchange pleasantries with the patients of colleagues I passed near shoulder-to-shoulder in the hall.
By Robert Lin, CPO
Forcing Change…The intensity, uncertainty, and rolling grip of the COVID-19 pandemic has, without doubt, challenged many of us, both professionally and personally. The arrival of innovative vaccines at the end of 2020 and early 2021 has enabled many countries to slowly return to some degree of normality.
By Sarah Curran, PhD
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