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The Live in Motion Foundation has put out a call for O&P professionals to serve as reviewers for its Fuel the Future of O&P Scholarships. The announcement is brief; the question it raises about program scale and quality control is not.
Studies going back four decades show patients are redirected before they finish stating their concerns. For prosthetics appointments, where multiple concurrent issues compete for limited time, the timing math is worth understanding.
A September 2026 O&P EDGE article describes a clinician's first encounter with pyoderma gangrenosum in a prosthetic patient. The condition is rare, often misdiagnosed as infection, and has a defining feature that makes it particularly difficult in an amputee context: it gets worse when you apply the kind of mechanical trauma that prosthetic socket management usually involves.
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