CMS has recently launched a series of initiatives to control Medicare spending on durable medical equipment (DME) and prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS). An important question is how these initiatives will affect beneficiary satisfaction. Using survey data, we analyze Medicare beneficiary satisfaction with DMEPOS suppliers in two Florida counties. Our results show that beneficiaries ...

Characterization of the residual limbs and limb segments of patients for prosthesis and orthosis design has principally been a subjective process, highly dependent upon the skill, level of training, and experience of the prosthetist/orthotist involved. Even with the application of computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) technologies in prosthetics and orthotics, resid...

1 School of Medicine, University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Fla. 33152. Greater knowledge and understanding of bioengineering by the prosthetics and orthotics industries during the past twenty years have resulted in the development of highly functional and sophisticated appliances. For example, modern prostheses for lowerand upperextremity amputees are now designed with proper ...

On a purely personal note, may I suggest as we turn from the prosthetics side to orthotics that this area has a historic interest for me . After I had poliomyelitis 50 years ago, in July 1924, I became involved a great deal in the era of the wooden wheelchair, crutches, canes, full-length leg braces, and then short ones . I still use orthopedic shoes and two canes. The number of patients requir...

This study aims to design a patient registration service application for the Prosthetics Orthotics Clinic at Health Polytechnic of Jakarta I. Several methods developing applications that were previously developed used waterfall method. In this study, it was designed using Rapid Application Development method with hope development process could be faster good results compared The result is forma...

THE ROOTS OF MODERN motion analysis can be traced back to photographer Eadweard Muybridge who used his invention, the zoopraxiscope, to project sequential motions onto a screen so they appeared in motion. At the University of Pennsylvania, he studied animals and human volunteers. To gain insight into uncommon human motion he also recruited patients with physical disabilities from a nearby hospi...

Support of living tissues by nondestructive external devices is essential in the fields of orthotics and prosthetics . In all areas of medical care for chronic illnesses, considerable effort is devoted to the creation of devices which are nondestructive to living tissue and yet accomplish their function of support when the neuromuscular skeletal system is inadequate because of disease or injury...