Medicare covers the furnishing and fitting of therapeutic shoes and inserts, called orthotics, for people with diabetes and severe diabetes-related foot disease. It also covers medically necessary ...

An ankle-foot orthotic, or AFO, is a brace that controls the kinematics and kinetics of the ankles while also compensating for weakening or correcting irregularities. AFOs can also be used to ...

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 ...

To remedy a chronic condition or rehabilitate an injury sometimes it is necessary to stabilize the movements of the feet and ankles by utilizing Custom Ankle Foot Orthosis (AFO). These devices are ...

Physical therapy students in the sixth and final year of their program are in need of faculty and staff volunteers, considered to be mild over- or underpronators, to participate in an individualized ...