I recently attended a monthly meeting of my local CMSA Chapter.  The sponsor for the meeting was Snell Orthotics and Prosthetics of Little Rock who had invited BiOM to come and speak to us about advanced prosthetics.  John Braddock of BiOM and a patient model showed us an example with the iWalk PowerFoot.  During the presentation, John shared with us that select service members are participating in a program that will allow them to return to active duty.
 
The Tactical Defense Institute (TDI) in West Union, Ohio, is where the participants …

I am excited to find that Össur Americas has partnered with the Amputee Coalition, and Johns Hopkins University to create a new program to help providers to address the emotional needs of amputees and those with limb loss.  As a life care planner, when I perform an assessment on an amputee, I often find unaddressed emotional needs.  Even when mental health services have been instituted, I  still find some emotional needs have not adequately been addressed.  I am excited about this new program and am anxious to see what is …

A project at Vanderbilt University is building  a “smart” prosthesis that gives amputees a more natural gait.  Michael Goldfarb, a professor of mechanical engineering, at Vanderbilt’s Center for Intelligent Mechatronics, has been working for several years with Craig Hutto, who lost his leg in 2005 when he was attacked by a shark. Hutto, who is a lab assistant, has offered valuable input on what works and what doesn’t work for amputees. That has gone a long way towards making the bionic leg comfortable and workable in real-world conditions.
As a life care …