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Marjory Garrison

  • HME Products

    Fun and Function

    Children may outgrow their tennis shoes and their Barbie dolls, their playhouses and their Tonka trucks, but leading manufacturers in pediatric mobility are making sure they won’t outgrow their wheelchairs or scooters — at least not anytime soon. Manufacturers are responding to the increasing number of children who are diagnosed with special mobility needs at an early age by designing mobility products that will last as a child grows and develops. But as parents come to mobility providers with increasingly younger children in need, this ambitious goal isn’t easy to achieve. “You used to wait until a child was four, five or six years old. Now, if you have the diagnosis, you can start as early as 12 to 18 months,” says Julianna Arva, pediatric...

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  • Breath of Fresh Air

    Manufacturers in the asthma market are breathing easy this spring, keeping their end-users out of the emergency room with new medications and easy-to-use

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  • HME Products

    Looking for a Jump Start

    The 1980s were the glory years for the electromedical industry, leading manufacturers say. It was a decade when the market for electromedical products soared to its peak, and a time when the practice of chiropractics was hip and trendy, “almost a status thing,” says Kevin Doyle, purchasing manager for Amrex. “Chiropractors were traveling with rock stars,” he says. But while some electromedical manufacturers say the industry hit its prime in the 1980s, most say they are content to operate in the afterglow of that heyday. Industry leaders describe today’s market as stable, healthy and growing — albeit conservatively. “[I anticipate] considerable growth for the next five to six years straight,” says Thomas Rodenberg, national sales manager for Parker Laboratories. From Trendy to Mainstream No longer...

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