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Bionic P&O Group hired a business development manager from a mobile device company. That's worth a sentence of explanation.

Bionic Prosthetics and Orthotics Group, based in Indiana, brought on Steven Senko — previously a brand ambassador at mobile device company Agoztech — as its new business development manager. The hire is one data point in a recognizable pattern: O&P practices building out the commercial side of their operations, and pulling that capacity from outside the clinical world.

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Ottobock upgraded its 2026 revenue forecast. What a dominant prosthetics manufacturer's growth outlook means for the people who depend on its devices.

Ottobock raised its organic core revenue growth forecast for 2026 to 6–8 percent, up from its prior 5–8 percent range. The number is corporate language. What is underneath it matters more.

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One CPO, one hire, one opening in a fitting schedule somewhere. O&P workforce math works like that.

Bionic Skins hired Bri Perry, CPO, as prosthetist and clinical manager after about a year at ForMotion Clinic. In a field where 78 percent of practitioners report burnout and the supply of experienced clinicians is structurally limited, individual moves accumulate into access patterns.

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