Michael Redd was shocked to find out that Michael Porter Jr. has been wearing a brace for stroke victims on his left leg to ...

An ankle-foot orthotic, or AFO, is a brace that controls the kinematics and kinetics of the ankles while also compensating for weakening or correcting irregularities. AFOs can also be used to ...

Many people think of insoles as simple comfort accessories. But when you’re dealing with real foot, knee, or back pain, the ...

There is little evidence in the literature of the effectiveness of AFOs in children with CP, and the variability in different studies makes it difficult to compare the results. [8,16,17] This is a ...

People with poliomyelitis would walk more normally with the new powered knee-ankle-foot orthosis developed by Mokhtar Arazpour, a researcher and faculty member at the University of Social Welfare and ...

This article systematically reviews the available literature to improve our understanding of the physiological basis for orthoses under the kinematic, shock attenuation and neuromotor control ...

Orthoses are widely used in the management of children with CP even though there is no robust evidence for its effect. [8,9] The ankle-foot orthosis (AFO) is the most frequently used type of orthoses ...