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3D Camera System

May 22, 2013

Apis Footwear offers the cutting-edge Mt. Emey 3D camera system to help customers save time and money on custom foot orthosis fabrication.

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Locking Knees

May 22, 2013

Trulife introduces the new PC (polycentric) Friction Control Knee with Lock. The new SSK602L and SSK604L are Trulife’s latest locking knees.

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StrechCordz Dual Strap

May 22, 2013

StrechCordz from NZ Manufacturing now include a new dual stretch strap. The Stretch and Mobility Strap, with one strap made of nylon webbing connected to a stretch elastic strap, is designed for stretching that uses isometric contractions to improve flexibility

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Visco-Gel Toe Buddy

May 22, 2013

PediFix introduces the newest Visco-Gel foot protection product, the Toe Buddy, which gently separates and aligns crooked toes. Visco-Gel is the company’s proprietary Gel poly­mer material that cushions, protects, and conforms to foot contours. Designed like a “buddy splint,” the Toe Buddy features a soft spacer that gently separates toes to relieve interdigital irritation

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Trigger Point Grid Roller

May 22, 2013

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 manual pressure, replicating the massage experience.

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Clinicians come to aid of marathon victims

May 22, 2013

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 Lower extremity clinicians helped save lives at the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings, which killed three and injured 264, and now are at victims’ sides as they begin to recover. Podiatrist Kirk Neustrom, DPM, was back in Boston for his 19th year as a volunteer in the marathon’s medical tent, which was located just around the corner from the finish line.

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OSU plans major sports medicine facility

May 22, 2013

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.

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Poststroke bone changes in patients who use AFOs

May 21, 2013

The medical literature suggests that changes in bone density and other bone characteristics after stroke persist after patients have regained ambulatory status.

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Microfracture surprises tarnish the experience

May 14, 2013

U.S. orthopedic surgeons perform more than 25,000 microfractures annually, making the procedure the most common marrow-­stimulating technique used for repair of the cartilage defects that often affect active individuals.1 Although microfracture is a single-stage, low-cost intervention that requires only surgical time and common surgical tools, it requires a lengthy rehabilitation and comes with other challenges, such as limited durability and less than optimal return-to-sport rates. And, for many patients, the procedure also comes as a complete surprise.

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Diabetic ankle fractures: Surgical considerations

April 30, 2013

Pittsburgh researchers found that patients with diabetes have higher complication rates than nondiabetic patients following open surgical management of ankle fractures, but also that the rate of major complications in the diabetic patients was relatively low.

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