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This newsletter focuses on the unique aspects of providing orthotic devices to children. From a biomechanical and design perspective, working with young patients draws largely on the same orthotic principles and materials as with adults; indeed the spectrum of orthotic appliances includes relatively few systems designed specifically for pediatric applications. Read More >

President Steven Mirones and Arimed Prosthetics and Orthotics were honored on November 11, 2007 by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz at Brooklyn Borough Hall with a business advocacy award for employing disable individuals.

Arimed and President Steven Mirones were prominently featured in Crains New York Business in the Small Business Report section for their donation of prostheses to the Staten Island Ferry Vicitim. + Craines New York Business October 9-15, 2006

President Steven Mirones and Arimed Prosthetics and Orthotics were honored on October 15th at Brooklyn Borough Hall by Borough President Marty Markowitz with a Business Advocacy Award in recognition of the 15th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Arimed currently employees those with disabilities and has donated prostheses to victims of [...]

Here’s a question: Name an activity of daily living that is particularly  risky for a lower-limb amputee. One?! If you are in fact an amputee or an amputee’s caregiver,  you probably can come up with a lengthy list of answers to that question…among them most likely being “Taking a shower.” Think about it from the [...]

It is the way of the sporting world that physically challenged athletes compete with and against other physically challenged athletes. That  approach “levels the playing field,” you see, preventing “disabled” men and women from being placed at unfair disadvantage in contests with “whole” or able-bodied competitors. Thus we have the Paralympics, O&P Extremity Games, and [...]

Prosthetic science-long a rather docile entity characterized by periodic improvements making momentary  deadlines-has suddenly discovered steroids. Generated by new applications of space-age materials and digital technology, fresh thinking about how to enhance prosthetic outcomes, and America’s experience in rehabilitating its amputee casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, prosthetics in the 21st century has become downright exciting, [...]

Gel liners, sometimes known as roll-on suction sockets, aren’t particularly new anymore-they’ve been a part of mainstream prosthetic practice going on two decades, and today increasing numbers of amputee patients are wearing them. That growing history doesn’t mean the innovation is over, however. In reality, new interface designs are coming to market at a rapid [...]

Orthotists are frequently involved in the management of young patients with cerebral palsy. United Cerebral Palsy estimates that 764,000 children and adults living in the United States manifest C.P. symptoms and that some 8000 babies and infants and 1100-1500 preschool-age children are newly diagnosed each year. Of these, a majority are affected with spastic diplegia-stiff, [...]

To a prosthetist, the approach to creating a transfemoral, or aboveknee (A/K), replacement limb can be considerably  different than for a lower amputation level. Where a transtibial (B/K) prosthesis must replace the foot, ankle and part of the lower leg, an above-knee system adds the critical knee joint and part of the femur…and the degree [...]