Retrospective study of the degree of gait independence achieved by persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) using knee–ankle–foot orthosis with a medial single hip joint (MSH-KAFO). The 45 patients (36 ...

People with poliomyelitis would walk more normally with the new powered knee-ankle-foot orthosis developed by Mokhtar Arazpour, a researcher and faculty member at the University of Social Welfare and ...

New guidelines may be in order for evaluating and treating lower extremity pain. Investigators set out to determine if there was a relation between foot pain and lower extremity joint pain, and they ...

Ankle braces are common in the sport community and there has been concern that stabilizing the ankle joint might alter biomechanics further up the kinetic chain. New research has shown that knee ...

Medicare covers orthotic devices (orthoses) for people living with diabetes and severe diabetes-related foot disease, as well as medically necessary ankle-foot and knee-ankle foot orthoses. Medicare ...

Dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurostimulation therapy is a non-opioid technology designed to manage difficult-to-treat chronic pain, which has been present six months or more in a focal area of the ...