Educational Seminars

Mobility Research offers continuing education seminars, “Pediatric Gait Assessment” and “Partial Weight Bearing Gait Therapy,” taught by Phil Koch, PT.

Koch, owner of Long Island Pediatric Physical Therapy in Floral Park, NY, has 22 years of experience as a pediatric physical therapist. He uses Body Weight Support Treadmill Training as an approach to gait training in his pediatric practice, and he has lectured extensively on this approach.

Upcoming seminar dates include: April 16 in Omaha, Neb; May 21 in Winston-Salem, NC; and June 4 in Seattle, Wash.

For more information or for registration details, contact LiteGait, (800) 332-9255; education@litegait.com.

Ensinger Announces Marketing Agreement

Ensinger has announced a marketing agreement with Invibio®, in which Ensinger will begin marketing Invibio’s Peek-Classix™ polymer—a medical-grade polyetheretherketone for use in the production of medical applications and instruments—to its medical and pharmaceutical customers. 

Ensinger will market the material under the name Tecapeek Classix.

“Metal components are increasingly being replaced by medical-grade Peek in the development of medical devices and equipment,” says Michael Callahan, president of Invibio.  “Invibio will continue to work with leading suppliers such as Ensinger to increase the availability of biocompatible, high-performance materials to meet the growing demands of the medical device industry.”

Peek-Classix polymer is a US Pharmacopoeia Class VI thermoplastic designed for medical-device applications requiring blood or tissue contact of less than 30 days. It is one of the most chemically resistant polymers available and can be repeatedly sterilized using conventional sterilization methods, including steam, gamma radiation, and ethylene oxide processes without the degradation of its mechanical properties.

MediServe Information Systems Announces An Agreement With Johns Hopkins Health System

MediServe Information Systems Inc has reached an agreement with the Johns Hopkins Health System (Baltimore) to deploy MediLinks® in the health system’s Rehabilitation Services.

MediLinks is Medi-Serve’s point-of-care application that supports clinical information management activities of the health care organization. With MediServe, clients are increasing the quality of patient care and dramatically reducing operating costs by using MediLinks to plan, manage, and evaluate the cycle of clinical care.

The clinical information system will be utilized in the Rehabilitation Departments of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and the Johns Hopkins Green Spring Station Outpatient Rehabilitation facility.

Symmetry Medical Expands

Symmetry Medical Inc, an independent provider of products to orthopedic device manufacturers, has announced the completion of their facility expansion.

“These facility expansions are a direct result of robust product and system demand from our global orthopedic clients, as well as new customer wins,” says Brian Moore, president and chief executive officer of Symmetry Medical. “Driving this demand is our Total Solutions business model to act as the clients’ preferred partner in the development and production of proprietary products and systems. We believe the increased production capacity and state-of-the-art additions that this expansion provides will enable us to strengthen our position as the leading provider of products and systems to the expanding orthopedic industry.”

The expansion of the facility includes: the addition of 9,000 square feet to Symmetry’s Avilla, Ind trauma and spine instrument and implant facility; the addition of 22,000 square feet of space to the Sheffield, UK, facility for the production of knee, hip, and shoulder implants; the opening of a new 22,500-sq-ft facility for knee instrument design and manufacturing in Claypool, Ind; and the opening of a new 6,400-sq-ft Design and Development Center in Memphis, Tenn, which will support local customers with co-development projects.

The total cost of the expansions and development was $8.5 million.