When it comes to shoe insoles, the majority of users will agree on two points: Insoles should be comfortable and eminently forgettable.
By Shalmali Pal
Spenco Footcare: Organization takes pride in founder’s pioneering spirit
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December
Lower Extremity Review
Richie Brace: Eponymous brace remains mainstay of evolving company
In 1996, after 15 years of sports podiatry practice, Douglas Richie, DPM, was frustrated by the ongoing challenge of fitting sport ankle braces to patients who also wore custom foot orthoses.
By Cary Groner
ProtoKinetics: Today’s Most Advanced Technology and Expertise Applied to Gait Analysis
According to ProtoKinetics co-founder Michael Rowling intensive patient evaluation and gait analysis are essential for advanced orthotic design. Rowling and Youan Chang…
By Stephanie Zultanky
Mile High Orthotics Lab: Emphasis on customer, community relationships
Mile High Orthotics Lab (MHOL) is a young company that bases its success on staying at the forefront of technology while emphasizing client and community relationships.
By Hank Black
Med Spec: Homegrown innovation drives success
Overseas outsourcing in the manufacturing industry was a hot button topic during the 2012 elections. For Medical Specialties Inc, a maker of orthopedic and sports medicine products, going overseas was, and remains, a nonissue.
By Shalmali Pal
medi: Compression, compassion, and novel carbon fiber
medi USA, the Whitsett, NC-based manufacturing and distribution arm of the family owned, privately held German compression hosiery and O&P company, fosters innovation and active market development domestically and internationally.
By Christina Hall Nettles
Levy & Rappel: Long-established company continues to move with the times
David Kramer, CPed, didn’t start out to build a career in custom foot orthotics; the tendency just ran in the family. Kramer’s uncle owned Levy & Rappel, the venerable orthotics company in Saddle Brook, NJ…
By Cary Groner
Langer Biomechanics: Quality, innovation, and education
Langer Biomechanics provides a broad array of products to keep patients mobile. The company philosophy embraces the concept of harnessing innovation in order to maintain its legacy of industry leadership. Earlier this year, Langer made…
By Ellen Oliver
Integrity Orthotics: Achieving product innovation, patient satisfaction takes Integrity
In 2001, Peter DeLuca and two former colleagues came together and realized that certain characteristics are necessary for a great orthotic lab. Armed with these goals, the three formed Integrity Orthotics in Arlington, WA.
By Stephanie Zultanky
Dr. Comfort: New Year = New Products
The folks at Dr. Comfort in Mequon, WI, have been excitedly awaiting the arrival of the new year for a while, because 2013 will be a year to offer new products to practitioners’ diabetic patients—and a year to launch a new product outside the…
By Larry Hand
Dr. Comfort: Diabetic footwear: A simple goal for a complicated problem
The goal at Dr. Comfort is simple: Provide products that can help diabetic patients prevent amputations. “Prevention of diabetic amputations motivated the founding of Dr. Comfort, and it’s what motivates us to keep growing every year…
By Larry Hand
Delcam Healthcare Solutions: Powerful technology designed by medical experts for medical experts
Delcam is a supplier of advanced CAD-CAM solutions for the manufacturing industry. Using technology that allows customers to take complex-shaped products from concept to reality, Delcam’s range of software is utilized by…
By Samantha Rosenblum
Bracemasters: Designing for a range of patients, from pediatrics to seniors
Bracemasters International is a 16-year-old company, headquartered in New Berlin, WI, that began as a manufacturer of custom prosthetics and orthotics for a broad range of lower extremity patients.
By Barbara Boughton
Arizona AFO: Expands Gold Standard with interactive e-book, 3D scanner
Setting the Gold Standard is, well, standard, for Arizona AFO. “Customers expect our products to be durable, comfortable, and functional,” said company senior executive Don Pierson, CO, CPed, who added that Arizona’s patented…
By Andria Segedy
American Orthopedics: Innovation, customization accelerate growth
Product innovation, customization to individual needs, and private-label manufacturing services for other brands have driven continual growth at American Orthopedics Manufacturing Corporation in Brooklyn, NY.
By Larry Hand
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