Tag: osseointegration

Seven years ago, bone-anchored prosthetic devices were a rarity. Today, they’re reshaping lower-limb care. For many lower-limb amputees, it was ...

When osseointegration surgery achieved FDA approval five years ago, the lack of outcomes data created a lot of uncertainty.

According to a new study based on nearly a thousand amputees who've undergone osseointegration, the long-range track record for this ...

Here are five prosthetic innovations that originated in the Department of Veterans Affairs or Department of Defense, with amputee veterans ...

Most amputees don’t have a trusted relative or friend who’s been through osseointegration. So Tony Cappelletti decided to document his ...

Combine osseointegration with targeted muscle reinnervation and powered bionic technology, and you end up with a prosthetic leg like no ...

The theme of last week's Limb Preservation Foundation Symposium was “Hope, Help & Possibilities.” It was hard not to feel ...

OI pioneer Robert Rozbruch is bullish on OI for several reasons. One of the biggest? The expanding range of patients ...

A new paper in the Journal of Gait and Posture analyzes the gait characteristics of 10 above-knee amputees, pre- and ...

A new paper in the Journal of Gait and Posture analyzes the gait characteristics of 10 above-knee amputees, pre- and ...

60 Minutes Australia portrayed the world's top osseointegration surgeon as a reckless profiteer and made OI look risky and painful. ...

Now that the FDA has granted approval for some forms of this new procedure, the number of American amputees who ...

Two new studies offer strong evidence that osseointegration delivers on its promise of greater mobility, stability, and quality of life ...

Beginning this year, the VA is offering osseointegration surgery and rehabilitation to all amputee veterans. Are you a good candidate ...

Heartless insurers of the week: Sanford Health and the North Dakota Public Employees Retirement System. Their one-leg-per-lifetime policy leaves North ...

Most amputees who are considering osseointegration surgery face the kinds of hard choices and complications that confronted Cindy Asch Martin.

Dr. Jason Stoneback calls osseointegration (OI) a “game-changer” for amputees. He also knows that successful outcomes can’t be assumed. They ...

If you were going to design an ideal candidate for osseointegration (or OI) surgery, they might look something like Munya ...

Kudos to the Amputee Coalition for pulling off its first virtual National Conference with nary a glitch. The technology was ...

Prosthetic Technology as Pain Management