| In the orthosis group, nearly all patients reported using their orthosis for about 5.5 hours each day for six days of the week. |
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| If the patient needs an artificial limb or orthosis, this service cannot be supplied on-site. |
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| Neoprene kneepad orthosis with lateral flexor-rods which prevent the knee from being off-centered. |
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| His sponsors enabled this in 2004, when he permanently left his job in orthosis and began cycling professionally. |
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| Program does not accept the use of a foam box, laser or optical scanning devices for the dispensing of functional foot orthosis. |
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| A prosthesis or orthosis is considered an assistive device if used for a transfer. |
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| Uses one or more assistive devices such as prosthesis or orthosis, a button hook, sock aid, elastic shoe laces, etc. to dress. |
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| It can be treated conservatively with an orthosis, rest and physiotherapy. |
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| Most patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis who require treatment with a brace may use a thoracolumbar-sacral orthosis or a cervicothoracolumbar-sacral orthosis. |
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| The orthosis may be worn permanently by the patient or used temporarily until they no longer need them. |
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| Burnscar pressure garment, burn orthosis and extremity pump: a physician, medical specialist or nurse practitioner who is a member of a burn or lymphedema team. |
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| The first project, launched in the autumn of 2009, extended the NGO's premises in Ganderbal, refitting the physiotherapy and occupational therapy rooms in the process, and adding a prosthesis and orthosis production workshop. |
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| With this in mind Dr Herr went on to develop, in 2003, the first powered ankle-foot orthosis a device designed to fit around the ankle joint of someone with walking difficulties, such as a stroke patient. |
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| Once-weekly teriparatide administration, hospitalized rest, and application of a thoracolumbosacral orthosis alleviated symptoms within 2 months. |
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| Ours will be the only active orthosis for children with CP aimed for overground walking, and physiotherapy, as well. |
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| To achieve this, the orthosis must first alter the load being applied through the sole of the foot. |
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| At 6 months, foot pain intensity was less in the surgical and orthosis groups than in the control group. |
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| For example a simple ankle orthosis is given the same weighting as a reciprocal gait orthosis. |
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| Typical patients who benefit from an orthosis include those with spina bifida or cerebral palsy, or with a spinal cord injury or stroke. |
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| Unlike an orthosis, a prosthesis replaces an absent limb or organ. |
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| Requires the personal assistance of another person to apply an orthosis. |
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| This technology in combination with CAD design gives us the chance to provide ultimate design flexibility and produce a new type of custom orthosis. |
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| A prescription is created with colleagues, such as doctors, physiotherapists, chiropodists and orthotic technicians, and they'll then design the orthosis. |
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