Product Showcases
October 2014
The New Kinterra Foot/Ankle System is Extraordinarily Normal
Kinterra™ combines hydraulics and carbon-fiber technology to provide K3 ambulators with 12° of motion and an exceptionally normal walking gait-regardless of surface angle or speed. The result is rock-solid stability and the confidence for users to choose a new path.
Kinterra's articulating ankle provides:
- Improved stability and safety, especially on slopes and varied terrain.
- Reduced socket pressure for healthier residual limbs.
- Enhanced comfort while sitting or squatting.
- Increased ground contact and a more symmetrical gait.
See the Kinterra in action on our website.
Freedom Innovations
888.818.6777
www.freedom-innovations.com
Optimize Your Foot Orthotic Services
Amfit is a world leader in technology for digital casting, design, and fabrication of custom foot orthotic devices. The process allows a user to quickly cast and create a full custom product quickly, accurately, and at low-cost. Choose from two 3D scanners-the Contact Digitizer™ or Impress Scanner-and combine with an on-site Amfit CAD/CAM Mill or Amfit Lab Services offered by our skilled technicians. Correct & Confirm™ design software allows detailed prescriptions to be easily satisfied. Amfit combines cutting-edge technology and more than 25 years of experience serving foot care professionals worldwide.
Amfit Inc.
800.356.3668
www.amfit.com
Switch to BOC Today!
Why make the transition to BOC? Award-winning customer service, industry expertise, and a user-friendly website are just a few of the benefits of choosing BOC. With BOC as your credentialing partner, you get accreditation for your O&P facility at a discounted rate and individual certification, all under one roof. Plus, it's easy (and free)! Make the transition to BOC for accreditation or certification for no up-front cost. Contact us today at . We're with you every step of the way!
Board of Certification/Accreditation
877.776.2200
www.bocusa.org
Endolite Introduces the bladeXT
From the occasional jogger to the avid marathon runner, the bladeXT assists users in meeting their fitness routine requirements. This cross-trainer-style foot allows users to quickly transition from cardio to weight training without sacrificing safety, stability, or performance.
With an overmolded sole cover for improved traction and durability on all terrain, along with a heel wedge that can be added to stiffen heel action, this foot allows for the versatility that cross-training requires.
Endolite
800.548.3534
www.endolite.com
Try the New RUSH81 Foot by Ability Dynamics
Find out why CPs and amputees are raving about this new, low-profile prosthetic foot. Our Flexeon™ fiberglass composite material is two times more flexible than carbon fiber and nearly indestructible. This translates into zero dead spots, zero repairs, reduced socket issues, and higher patient satisfaction-all of which are good for your business and your patient.
Our unique design ensures the most stable, natural K3 mobility and lifestyle experience for your patients. Try it and see for yourself.
Call today and receive a special introductory discount on your first two orders.
Ability Dynamics
855.450.7300
www.abilitydynamics.com
Grace Fabrication Plates
GRACE Plates are round, thermoplastic or laminated socket adaptors with a European-pattern design that fit most all prosthetic components. Our plates allow for ease of alignment after sockets are fabricated. Created with state-of-the-art aircraft aluminum, the GRACE Plate has been used in thousands of prostheses. For your convenience, GRACE Plates come with the appropriate hardware for one low price.
Grace Prosthetic Fabrication
800.940.5347
www.gpfinc.com
Promote Your Facility with Tensitube® Blue Shrinkers by Paceline
Customize Tensitube® Blue shrinkers with your company logo and promote your facility to doctors and rehab professionals. An elastic postop shrinker, Tensitube® Blue applies controlled compression to help provide pain relief and reduce hypertrophic scarring and edema. A complete product line is available in sizes ranging from 2-6 in. widths, and in 18, 24, and 30 in. lengths. For a free sample with your company logo, visit www.tensitubeblue.com
Paceline
800.443.1827
www.paceline.com
Introducing the Stride4 Shadow from Becker Oregon
The Stride4™ Shadow is a lightweight KAFO that combines structural strength and cosmetic appeal with the new Stride4 mechanical stance control orthotic knee joint from Becker Orthopedic.
Stride4 features include:
- Three operation modes: stance control, free motion, and locked with stance phase knee flexion.
- Four-bar linkage mechanism to afford stability and mimic anatomical knee motion.
- Integrated extension assist.
The inherent rigidity of the Stride4 Shadow ensures that optimal joint alignment and function is maintained throughout the gait cycle.
Becker Oregon
800.866.7522
www.beckerorthopedic.com
Introducing the New SPS Online Store
SPS is excited to announce the launch of the new SPS online store, SPSCO.com, the world's largest O&P online store. Featuring the most comprehensive O&P product portfolio, live chat, custom shipping options, side-by-side product comparisons, advanced search, and a fast and user-friendly experience.
SPS
800.767.7776
www.spsco.com
Maximum Shock Value—with the New Freedom Agilix
The Freedom Agilix™ is a multiaxial, shock-absorbing, flexible foot system designed to manage loading impacts, reduce socket shear forces, and improve comfort while walking on nearly any terrain. The ultra-lightweight design offers low-impact K3 ambulators shockingly comfortable performance at a value like no other. Learn more about the Agilix on our website.
Freedom Innovations
888.818.6777
www.freedom-innovations.com
New 7E9 Hydraulic Hip from Ottobock
The slim and robust 7E9 Monocentric Hydraulic Hip Joint is currently the only hip design approved for a body weight of up to 275 lb. The 7E9 is also the only hydraulic swing and stance hip approved for use with mechanical knees (3R60 and 3R106) as well as the C-Leg and Genium microprocessor legs. The flexibility of these component combinations ensures high functionality, safety, and improved mobility for those with hip disarticulation or hemipelvectomy amputations.
Ottobock
800.328.4058
www.professionals.ottobockus.com
medi USA Introduces the 4Seal TFS Liner
The new medi 4Seal TFS Liner combines a revolutionary sealing technology with a unique self-gliding surface, providing extraordinary suspension, comfort, and ease of use for those with transfemoral amputations.
Features and benefits include:
- Integrated seals for easy inversion and a highly secure fit.
- Easy Glide PLUS outer surface-no donning aids or sprays required.
- Excellent tissue control due to a highly effective, full-length matrix.
- Optimal radial stretch for greater comfort.
- Simple to use gel-grip spacer socks for easy application (available separately).
medi USA
800.633.6334
www.mediusa.com
Solvent Replacement Wipes
+PLUSeries® Solvent Replacement Wipes are specifically designed to replace the use of acetone and other toxic solvents in your work environment, greatly reducing your exposure to harmful toxic chemicals. Learn more at www.fabtechsystems
.com/Pluseries-Solvent-
Replacement-Wipes-detail.html
Fabtech Systems LLC
800.322.8324
www.fabtechsystems.com
Hersco Ortho Labs Announces the New Tri Lam Custom Foot Orthotics
Hersco has a new line of Tri Lam custom foot orthotics with several material choices. Tri Lam technology layers materials of different durometers, giving the practitioner the ability to vary thickness and shock absorption. Hersco Tri Lams include Plastazote and PPT for accommodative devices, or more durable Sky for active patients. You can also choose the base layer of firmer cork or softer EVA.
More information and pictures are available on our website. Certified pedorthists are ready to answer any questions you may have regarding our custom products.
Hersco Ortho Labs
800.301.8275
www.hersco.com
Shape To Fit Socks and Compression Hosiery by Dr. Comfort
Dr. Comfort's Shape To Fit socks and compression hosiery line combines function, fashion, and comfort for preventive, medically correct support that's attractive too. Features include an easy-on graduated compression and Shape To Fit's signature nonbinding comfort band, which provides superior, nonslip support.
Uniquely designed seamless socks and smooth-seam hosiery with fresh-weave odor control make them an ideal choice for people with diabetes and foot health considerations.
Dr. Comfort
800.992.3580
www.drcomfort.com
New protect.4 evo Functional Knee Brace from medi USA
Combining quality with economical pricing, the protect.4 evo offers the comfort, stability, and support required for ligamentous injuries. Featuring a durable, yet lightweight, malleable frame, the product utilizes the four-point design principle for optimal stabilization, as well as effective reduction of medial rotation.
Features and benefits include:
- Polycentric hinges for anatomical tracking.
- Numbered straps to ensure simple and correct application.
- Strong, yet light, aluminum frame for easy customization of fit.
- Low profile.
- Flexion, extension, and immobilization settings follow all popular protocols.
medi USA
800.633.6334
www.mediusa.com
New Genesee Metro Liner from College Park
The new College Park Genesee liner provides the ideal benefits required of a gel liner in an affordable package. Shaped for fit and flexibility with cushioning comfort and excellent limb-conforming properties, this durable liner accommodates a wide range of users. The unique fabric provides a superior fiber-to-gel bond, reduces pistoning, and eases donning.
- Infused with mineral oil for continuous skin hydration, preventing skin friction over the lifespan of the liner.
- Retrofits with industry standard liners of like thickness and profile.
- Longer length for the perfect fit.
- Suitable for K1 through K3 functional levels.
College Park Industries
800.728.7950
www.college-park.com
AllPro from Fillauer
Have your patients walk and play like a pro!
Contact us to order the new Fillauer AllPro foot.
Fillauer LLC
800.251.6398
www.fillauer.com
RHEO KNEE 3 by Össur
A perfect balance of stability and dynamics.
Featuring a new actuator and kinematic sensor, RHEO KNEE® 3 offers increased resistance across a wider range of stance flexion. This improved support helps increase the confidence of all users, especially low K3 users. At the same time, we didn't sacrifice the dynamics that RHEO KNEE is known for and that high K3 users expect. In fact, we improved the dynamics via a more powerful actuator and a faster swing extension.
Contact your Össur® rep today to get certified or to see a RHEO KNEE 3 demonstration.
Össur
800.233.6263
www.ossur.com
ELLIOTT Patient Management System
The ELLIOTT™ Patient Management System for early intervention or definitive use is a unique approach that transforms an articulated AFO and a KO into a functional KAFO. The ELLIOTT Orthosis is designed to be utilized in an acute physical therapy department, enabling the treating therapist to have a readily available KAFO, independent KO segment, or independent AFO segment for the patient's gait training. The KO design can address up to five different knee orthosis functions, and all three of the AFOs feature adjustable positioning for the foot and ankle to grade dorsiflexion and plantarflexion joint angles.
Anatomical Concepts Inc.
800.837.3888
www.anatomicalconceptsinc.com
Fit, Finish, and Roll...with the New Freedom DynAdapt
The Freedom DynAdapt™ foot is a slim-profile, carbon-fiber foot system with a slender, anatomic design for easy fit and finish. Its multiaxial function provides maximum comfort and the uninterrupted strands of carbon fiber in the full-length heel provide patients with effortless rollover and a more natural gait. The new EnduraCore™ Technology composite laminate delivers up to three times the fatigue life of a standard laminate in a design that also returns more energy. The result is a highly durable product that preserves users' energy so they can do more with confidence.
Freedom Innovations
888.818.6777
www.freedom-innovations.com
Becker Introduces the New Compact Double Action Ankle Joint
The Compact Double Action Ankle Joint (Model 725) is supplied fully assembled and is designed specifically for use with thermoplastics. The precontoured stainless steel upright and stirrup reduces fabrication time, while the low-profile and lightweight design enhances the clinical application. The Compact Double Action Ankle Joint, intended for both small-adult and pediatric patients, is designed to provide optimal control in the sagittal plane and increase mediolateral stability.
Becker Orthopedic
800.521.2192
www.beckerorthopedic.com
Evolution Industries’ Central Fabrication
Specializing in lower-extremity socketry.
All of our sockets are made with a special weave and weight of carbon fiber and fiberglass, which results in a lighter, stronger socket that patients can count on day after day.
Evolution Industries, Inc.
888.839.6213
www.evoii.com
Introducing ToeOFF 2.0
Allard USA is proud to announce ToeOFF 2.0. The same function you have come to appreciate in ToeOFF-just a little face-lift to show you we listened. D-ring straps with alligator tabs are easily applied for right- or left-hand pull and reduce the chance of losing a strap. MicroFIX is now pre-applied for faster application of SoftKIT or ComfortKIT. New manufacturing technology offers a smoother and more scratch-resistant surface. The XL has been increased by ¾ in. to accommodate patients with longer tibias.
Allard USA
888.678.6548
www.allardusa.com
PROTEOR Introduces Matik
New Pneumatic Swing Phase Control Four-Axis Knee.
Matik, the latest release from PROTEOR, is designed to provide an affordable yet efficient and maintenance-free polycentric knee.
Features include:
- Pneumatic knee with extension spring to provide full extension during stamping and slow walking.
- Secure four-axis geometry for high stability during stance phase.
- One inch of toe clearance during swing.
- Compact and lightweight: 26.21 oz.
- Rated up to 275 lb.; adapted for K2 users.
- Proximal connection, pyramidal or M36 threaded.
- Separated flexion-resistance and extension-dampering adjustments.
Nabtescoproteor-USA
855.517.4414
www.nabtescoproteor-usa.com
Fillauer K2 Foot from PEL
The Fillauer K2 Foot is engineered from the ground up for the K2 patient. Engineered with a unique flexible keel, the K2 Foot provides better control and stability. With a compliant forefoot that loads easily and provides support through toeoff, when the patient is ready to go, so is the K2 Foot.
Features and benefits include:
- Flexible, impact-reducing design.
- Unique flexible keel/multiaxis design.
- Roll-over shape (ROS) designed for a natural gait.
- Positive-lock foot shell interface for stability.
PEL
800.321.1264
www.pelsuppy.com
Coyote Composite
Coyote Composite is made by melting basalt (volcanic rock), which is then extruded into a filament and braided to our proprietary specifications for use in prosthetics and orthotics. Basalt has applications in fields that demand extremely tough, lightweight material that retains flexibility, including the aerospace and hockey equipment industries.
Features and benefits include:
- Noncarcinogenic and nontoxic.
- Less itch than carbon.
- Tough and durable.
- Lightweight.
- High saturation.
- Cost effective.
- Easy to use for rigid or flexible layups.
- Fully compatible with all prosthetic resins.
- Because of its superior saturation, Coyote Composite finishes as good as, or better than, carbon laminations.
Coyote Design
800.819.5980
www.coyotedesign.com
NUPOC Master's in Prosthetics-Orthotics
Now Accepting Applications!
NUPOC's 21-month MPO program allows you to complete your first two quarters (6 months) and final quarter (3 months) online, plus four quarters (12 months) of supervised practicum on campus, where you practice P&O skills with individuals who live with neuromusculoskeletal impairments.
NUPOC graduates are eligible for NCOPE residencies and P&O certification examinations. The NUPOC MPO prepares students to become proficient, compassionate clinicians; assess, prescribe, and deliver comprehensive P&O services; apply research to clinical practice; and contribute meaningfully to the P&O profession. Apply today!
Northwestern University Prosthetics-Orthotics Center
Feinberg School of Medicine
NUPOC
312.503.5700
www.nupoc.northwestern.edu
Introducing the Wee Walker Air
Designed for kids.
The Bledsoe Wee Walker is the original walker designed specifically for children. Now engineered with a pneumatic pad, the Wee Walker Air provides durability, comfort, and increased support so your pediatric patients can get back to being kids.
Bledsoe Brace
888.253.3763
www.bledsoebrace.com
Introducing the Adjustable Summit Line
The same level of therapeutic pain relief and support you rely on with Aspen's sized Summit braces is now available in an adjustable brace. The patented Sure Slot™ sizing mechanism offers multiple sizes in one brace that comfortably fits waists 26-60 in., and up to 70 in. with the extension panel. One-size adjustability means the correct size is always on hand, minimizing inventory requirements and significantly reducing costs. Adjustable and sized Summit 456, Summit 637, and Summit 631 braces are available and offer experts significant modification options to support various patient conditions. Codes L-0456, L-0637, and L-0631 approved.
Aspen Medical Products
800.295.2776
www.aspenmp.com