Lower Extremity Review
AliMed offers the 2013-2014 Rehabilitation, Orthopedics, & Skilled Nursing Product Sourcebook for high quality patient care, rehabilitation, orthopedic, operating room, diagnostic imaging, and ergonomic products. AliMed now offers more than 70,000 specialty...
Mark Cuban, the brash billionaire owner of the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Dallas Mavericks, has pledged $100,000 to fund a study to determine if biomechanical analysis can distinguish legitimate falls during a basketball game from “flops.” The perfectionist in me really likes this idea. But the pragmatist in me wonders whether there might be better uses for that money.
Jordana Bieze Foster, Editor
The American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association (AOPA) invites O&P students and residents to present their research findings or case studies at the 2013 O&P World Congress, scheduled for September 18-21 in Orlando, FL. AOPA will give the Otto and Lucille...
The US Department of Defense (DOD) Joint Warfighter Medical Research Program awarded Seattle-based Cadence Biomedical $1 million on May 30 to fund development of new technology for amputees. Cadence makes the Kickstart Walking System, a wearable device without...
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, announced on May 28 that it will expand its sports medicine practice as part of the 100,000-square-foot Mayo Clinic Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center building project. The Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center at the Dan Abraham Healthy...
Vancouver, British Columbia will host the third International Patellofemoral Pain Research Retreat & Clinical Symposium, a three-day gathering of scientists who meet every two years to present new research on patellofemoral pain (PFP) and engage in panel...
Shire Regenerative Medicine announced at the May 2013 Symposium on Advanced Wound Care and Wound Healing Society, held in Denver, CO, that it will partner with the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC) to provide a $100,000 grant for fellowships to...
Skillman, NJ-based ConvaTec reported in May that two recent studies suggest its Aquacel Ag Surgical cover dressing has benefits over standard dressings for prevention of wound complications. The antimicrobial dressing is designed to protect surgical incisions with a...
New York City-based Ektio is continuing to strengthen its partnership with professional Slamball athletes. Slamball players, whose full-contact hybrid sport of basketball played from trampolines puts them at risk for ankle sprains, started trying out Ektio shoes,...
Neptune, NJ-based JMS Plastics joined with nora systems in May to bring its EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate) products to JMS customers who are seeking high-quality EVA for orthoses and diabetic shoes. nora systems, headquartered in Weinheim, Germany, is internationally...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) invites abstracts and workshop proposals for its 4th IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury & Illness in Sport, scheduled for April 10-12, 2014, in Monaco. The deadline for workshop proposals is September 1, and the...
William W. Dexter, MD, FACSM, new president of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), officially took the reins of the organization at the 60th ACSM Annual Meeting and the Fourth World Congress on Exercise is Medicine, which drew more than 5000 participants...
Selecting the right patients and committing time to education and management of their expectations when using orthoses to treat chronic low back pain can yield symptomatic relief, according to research conducted at the University of Salford and epublished by the Journal of Foot and Ankle Research in May.
Not all sham orthoses used in research settings provide the same mechanical effects or are perceived by study participants as equally credible, according to research epublished in May by the Journal of Foot and Ankle Research.
Varying rearfoot post angle levels in foot orthoses designed to correct pronation has dose-response effects at the rearfoot and knee in individuals both with and without pronated feet, according to a study published in May in the Journal of Biomechanics.
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