American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists

10/15/2025

Have you checked out the October issue of the Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics (JPO) yet? Discover original research and insights from across the O&P profession. You can also customize your JPO experience, creating personalized article collections and searches and exporting to share with colleagues.

Learn how and starting exploring here: https://buff.ly/UF66oor

10/15/2025

The next session of the Academy Think Tank Round Table series is coming up on November 6! Joins Academy President Dr. Gerald Stark, Phd, MSEM, CPOL, FAAOP(D) along with Taffy Bowman, CPO, Dr. Sally Kenworthy, PhD, MPO, CPO, and Abbey Senczyszyn, CPO, for a discussion on building leadership and mentorship in O&P.

Learn more and register here: https://buff.ly/8OkDT90

10/14/2025

Whether it’s your first Academy Annual Meeting or your fifteenth, you belong at .

🌟 First-time attendees: Discover why this is the must-attend event for O&P professionals.
🌟 Returning attendees: Reconnect, recharge, and continue shaping the future of patient care.

Register today and secure your spot before November 30 for the best rate.
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10/14/2025

Looking to sharpen your skills in lower limb orthotic care? Pair the latest Academy TODAY issue on lower limb orthotics with this on-demand course: 12 Tips for Dispensing Custom Foot Orthotics. You’ll gain practical strategies to streamline fittings, improve outcomes, and boost patient satisfaction.

🔗 Start learning: https://buff.ly/wmV9rR7
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10/14/2025

After losing parts of all four limbs to sepsis, Adam Smith is back in the boxing ring, thanks to custom prosthetic arms designed for impact and performance.

🔗 Read the full story:

Adam Smith became "fixated" on returning to the gym after sepsis forced the partial amputation of his arms and legs. Now he can press 365 kilograms and get back into boxing.

10/13/2025

Free for Academy members! Join us for the next Academy TODAY webinar on Thursday, October 30, to dive deeper into lower limb orthotic care.

Topics include:
🔹 From Subjective to Strategic: How a Physical Exam Drives Successful AFO Design
🔹 Importance of Physical Exam: Highlighting Rotational Deformity
🔹 Importance of Physical Exam: Highlighting Hip Flexion Contractures

Register today: https://buff.ly/5kMjnV0

10/13/2025

How effective are 3D-printed cranial remolding orthoses in treating infant cranial deformation? This study—authored by Academy President-Elect Tiffany Graham—examines outcomes in 257 Australian infants, offering promising results and practical tools for clinicians.

🔗 Read the full report: https://buff.ly/d9V4t6P
🔗 Or access via O&P IQ: https://buff.ly/ghk2Dn4

10/13/2025

Please join the Academy in celebrating our newest Fellow and Fellow with Distinction! 🎉

Michael L. McCauley, MS, CPO/L, FAAOP, leads pediatric initiatives across the Great Lakes Region at Hanger Clinic. His career spans clinical excellence, leadership, research, and education, complemented by volunteer service advancing access to care and mentoring future clinicians.

Kristin Carnahan, MSPO, CPO, FAAOP(D), is a certified prosthetist orthotist with extensive clinical, teaching, and research experience. She has advanced patient care, mentored future O&P professionals, and contributed nationally through scholarship, leadership, and Academy service.

The Fellow designation (FAAOP, FAAOP(A), FAAOP(D)) honors sustained commitment to lifelong learning, professional excellence, and service to the O&P community.

Learn more about the Fellow program: https://buff.ly/HZT5AWz

10/10/2025

New this week!👇

In the latest episode of O&P Clinical Care Insiders, host Seth O’Brien, CP, FAAOP(D), sits down with Jim Brookshier, MPO, CLPO, FAAOP, cranial specialist and clinical professor at the University of Texas Department of Neurosurgery in San Antonio.

Together, they explore the critical elements of effective cranial remolding care—from the importance of early intervention and referral source education to managing heat, ensuring compliance, and navigating the impact of social media.

Listen in: https://buff.ly/ju417Ki

10/10/2025

New in O&P Knowledge Central: A bite-sized microlearning module explores how infants with limb loss or limb difference adapt during crawling, highlighting differences in speed, cadence, and weightbearing compared to typically developing peers. Gain insights to inform early intervention and prosthetic support, all in under 15 minutes.

Start learning: https://buff.ly/tQivAbC

10/10/2025

Why do so many O&P professionals call the Academy home?

Because it’s where they find connection, inspiration, and the tools to keep growing. Through mentorship, collaboration, and shared purpose, Academy members are shaping the future of patient care together.

See what membership means in their own words.

10/10/2025

The Arizona Sonora Border Projects for Inclusion has provided prosthetic and mobility devices to over 3,000 people with disabilities in the border region.

NOGALES, Sonora — Francisco Trujillo ran through the anatomy of a prosthetic using a young man’s discarded leg. A sawed-off plastic jug served as the socket — the part connecting the prosthesis to the body — fastening a partial-metal crutch to a shoe. Trujillo set down the make-shift prosthe...