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Allard
Allied Plastic Supply
Becker Orthopedic
BioQuest
Branford
College Park
Daw
Fillauer Companies Inc.
Florida Brace Corp
Freedom Innovations
Futura
Hope Orthopedics
Kenad SG Medical Inc.
Knit - Rite
Medi
O&P Enterprises
OPTECH
Orthomerica
OTS Corp
PW Minor
RCAI
Spinal Technology
SPS
Townsend Design
TRULIFE
Registration info
Attendee Info:
$200.00 for both days
$120.00 for Friday only
or Saturday only. Click
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Exhibit Tables
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Workshops SOLDOUT
Hotel Room Info:
Please call the Peabody
to make your room
reservations at
501-906-4000.
Reference Orthotic and
Prosthetic Providers
(OPP) of Arkansas for
special rate. The room
rates are as follows:
Single Rate –
132.00 / night
Double Rate –
132.00 / night
Triple Rate –
142.00 / night
Quad Rate -
152.00 / night
Reservation cut-off date
06/13/07 12:00 am
July 6 - 7, 2007
Little Rock, AR
Peabody Hotel
www.peabodylittlerock.com
For more information contact Tonya Horton at 501-663-2908
This meeting is not sponsored by the Arkansas State Association but by
OPP Inc. an independent group of facility owners
Cocktail Party in the Exhibit Hall Friday Evening
Orthotic Workshops
Pediatrics Head to Toe Workshop
Orthomerica Products
This presentation reviews current pediatric orthotic
practices from cranial remolding orthoses to total
contact ankle foot orthoses. Participants will understand
the clinical indications for each orthosis and will have
the skills needed to choose the appropriate
management for children
Fabrication of TLSO and Humeral Fracture Brace
Allard
3D-Lite is an exciting innovation to quickly take care of
those Friday 4:00 calls for a custom TLSO or Humeral
Fracture Brace! Hands-on experience to custom
fabricate a TLSO or a Humeral Fracture Brace in less
than an hour.
- Introduction and overview, custom orthotic
device materials, processes and needs. - 3-D Lite physical properties and characteristics.
- 3-D Lite working properties and characteristics.
- Demonstration: Fabrication of Custom TLSO.
- Demonstration: Fabrication of Custom Humeral
Fracture Brace - Working lab: Participant fabrication of TLSO
or Humeral Fracture Brace
Pediatric Hip Orthosis & Pedorthic Advances
Allard
Learn about patient selection and fitting of SWASH –
the Sitting-Walking-And-Standing Hip orthosis for
management of sitting instability and/or scissoring gait
as often associated with cerebral palsy. Qualifies for a
SWASH certification course.
- CP overview – epidemiology, classifications
and costs. - Hip and gait biomechanics – normal vs.
excessive adductor tone. - Neuromuscular overview and implications.
- Orthotic stabilization – variable abduction
orthoses: Alignment vs. function in evaluation of
outcomes. - Patient evaluation – standing, walking and
sitting. - Quantification of functional levels.
- Demonstration – customization and fitting the
SWASH orthosis. - Review of custom Fabrication of AFO with ROM
Hinge - Selection of Footwear to enhance patient
compliance, while accommodating gait and
the AFO.
Prosthetic Workshops
The Freedom Agility MPC Knee
Freedom Innovations
A transfemoral amputee faces distinct challenges;
increased energy expenditures, the risk of falling while
taking stairs and ramps “step over step”, semi controlled
falls due to uneven terrain, and even complete loss of
balance. As a result, the prosthetic industry has been
developing artificial knee joints to assist the TF amputee
with these challenges. While no product has yet solved
all of the problems, microprocessor knee units are
thought to be among the best solutions available today.
Clinicians and amputees see the microprocessor knee
category as the way of the future and are seeking new
and better solutions to the current market place offering.
This presentation provides an introduction and synopsis
of the research, design and evaluation of the Freedom
MPC Knee: a microprocessor controlled knee product.
The Knee is lightweight with a slim profile and is
reported to be extremely responsive facilitating a more
smooth and natural gait than competing products. The
designers attempted to produce an MPC knee suitable
for K3 and K4 amputees. During development
functionality was assigned in ways that optimized
performance in areas important for these populations.
These include stability, light weight, long battery life,
simple charging and battery management, and ease of
adjustment for the practitioner.
The Science & Engineering of Freedom Innovation
Freedom Innovations
Our objective is to provide an innovative and exciting
technical forum designed to enhance clinicians’
product knowledge. The educational opportunity will
include but is not limited to proper product selection,
alignment, socket modification techniques, cosmetic
finishing and billing recommendations that are
associated with the products designed and
manufactured by Freedom Innovations. Focus will be
placed on the benefits of carbon fiber foot design and
the various attributes each specific design offers to
the various amputee populations. Clinicians can
integrate this knowledge into their practice to
maximize patient outcomes through a better
understanding of product engineering, function and
alignment. Additionally time will be spent on the
unique attributes and material properties engineered
into the companies socket interfaces. Patient
demonstrations will be incorporated to enhance the
learning opportunities as well as assist the clinicians’
working knowledge of the products presented.
Finally, a course quiz and critique will be
administered to assure that the learning objectives
where properly presented as well as to help refine the
course to maximize its effectiveness.
College Park:
In addition to a short Extremity Games video, CPI will
be giving a 2hr. presentation that will include a
general overview of the unique function of each of the
College-Park Dynamic Response Multi Axial foot/
ankle systems. Step by step cosmetic finishing while
maintains access to foot systems and Endo skeletal
components noise trouble shooting. We will also,
cover the unique and easy process of fabricating a
light below knee Exo –skeletal prosthesis, utilizing
the ALX Ankle System.
Human and Prosthetic (Below Knee Complex)
Biomechanical FunctionIn Level Ground Walking
BioQuest
Human and prosthetic replacements create and utilize
three types of energies. These energies transform into
power, which each segment utilizes to do the work of
walking. These three energies are translatory,
rotational, and potential. Potential energy is the
energy of position while translatory and rotational are
kinetic energies of motion. To achieve amputee gait
efficiency, prosthetic below knee complex systems
are required to emulate the humans biomechanical
functions in three planes; sagittal, frontal, and
transverse. The energies in the sagittal plane provide
most of the energy to do the work of walking. Current
below knee prosthetic systems fail to emulate human
sagittal plane translatory and rotational energies,
thereby creating amputee gait deficits. These deficits
exhibit decreased linear gait velocity, increased
oxygen consumption, and asymmetrical gait patterns.
A new and innovative below knee prosthetic system
has been innovated that more accurately replicates
the aforementioned energy systems, wherein the
lower extremity amputee experiences an increase in
linear gait velocity, decreased oxygen consumption
and near “normal” gait symmetry. This presentation
will highlight how, why, when and where current
below knee prosthetic systems are deficient and
provide solutions to more accurately replicate human
below knee complex biomechanical function.
Exhibit Hall Open
Business Program
An Orthotist / Prosthetist Guide To Medical
Malpractice and Products Liability Law in Arkansas. -
David Glover / Wright, Lindsey, and Jennings LLP
Find out how Arkansas medical malpractice law has
changed in the past few years, products liability law,
and issues about which Orthotist / Prosthetist should
be aware, such as informed consent. David will
intersperse anecdotes throughout and he will also
answer any questions you may have.
The Balance of Business
- Michael Burton / Florida Brace Corporation
This presentation offers insight into the need to achieve
balance in business, and in life. Attendees will gain a
better understanding of how to balance business and
personal needs. Many of the common struggles in
which a balance is desired will be addressed. Every
practitioner and business person who struggles with
balances will obtain helpful insight about how to turn
their struggles into personal achievements.
Billing Forum
Moderated by Kristi Hughes / Horton's Orthotic Lab
and Rebecca Ward / Felix Brace and Limb
Are you having issues with NPI numbers? Is
Medicaid's new pre-auth procedures giving you
nightmares? Are certain insurance companies
ALWAYS giving you the same excuses and the same
run around????? Come to this open forum and find
out how your colleagues are dealing with and
handling these same situations. Use this hour to vent,
learn, and discuss.
Taking Your Office Paperless and Wireless. - / Futura
International
In todays healthcare market the need to automate to
Electronic records takes you to compliance and an
efficient office. With the demand for more and more
documents to be held on file, Futura software has the
ability to make that possible for you, without the need
for additional office staff and storage space for
physical charts. Let Futura show you how.
Who Moved My Dog Dish?
- Russell J. Hornfisher / Becker Orthopedic
Change is happening in our lives at a faster pace than
ever before. How do we cope with all of the changes
in our live’s. This program will not stop change, but it
will provide tools to take a little more control of your
life. You can either let change control you, or you can
harness change to your benefit.
AOPA Update
- Russell J. Hornfisher / Becker Orthopedic
The American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association
was founded in 1918, by a group of Orthotic and
Prosthetic business owners who recognized the
importance of a trade association. The needed an
organization the they could use as a vehicle to
improve the industry as well as their own business.
Through the 90 years of its existence, AOPA has
continuously developed programs, products and
services to meet the changing needs of the Orthotic
and Prosthetic business owner. This presentation will
provide the audience with current over view of the
product, programs and services offered by AOPA.
Attendees will learn how participation in AOPA will
improve their practice. Through out the years AOPA
has brought Orthotic and Prosthetic business together
in the best interest of the industry.
Technical Program
Arkansas State Licensure Update
-Roger Smith / Lobbyist
Find out the latest on the new Arkansas State
Licensure requirements.
Technical Forum
Moderated by Michael Horton, CPO / Horton's Orthotic
Lab, and Bryan Sims, CPO / Felix Brace and Limb
Have an issue and wonder if everyone else is having
the same problem? Wondering if someone else has
come up with some new way of doing something, or
maybe you have found some new trick that you would
like to share? This will be the place to be. In this
open forum the floor will be open to discuss whatever
you will like that pertains to anything technical. See
how other technicians are handling certain situations
or doing certain things, ask as many questions as you
like. Your colleagues and peers will be at your
fingertips.
Gait Concepts
-Robert Meier, CO, BOCO / Allard
Learn gait biomechanics, along with the ins and outs of
product selection and customization for carbon
composite floor reaction AFOs. Learn how to combine a
carbon composite AFO with a toe filler to provide
dynamic response for partial foot amputations. Listen to
an end user’s comparison of plastic AFO versus carbon
composite.
HOPE Orthopedics 'LUX' line
-David Hendricks, CPO, FAAOP
LumboLux™, OrlandoLux™, OrthoLux™, OrthoLux
SCC™, VertaLux™, SpinaLux™, and the soon-coming,
as yet unnamed Blank-Lux; to list them from least to
most supportive - is a line of prefabricated spinal
orthoses designed for patient comfort, orthopedic
support, ease of fitting, and strong reimbursement to
satisfy the needs of the patient, the orthotist and the
physician. This presentation will briefly discuss the
anatomy, pathology and orthotic treatment of an injured
adult spine, and then focus on the proper selection of
the prefabricated spinal orthosis and its accurate fitting,
with actual demonstrations of “patient” fittings. A
discussion of proper spinal coding and some thoughts on
licensure as it applies to prefabricated spinal orthoses
will conclude the 30-minute presentation, leaving a few
minutes for audience questions to be entertained.
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