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Tag: AFOs
Arm Braces for Kids-What Nobody Tells Parents
October 21, 2026
Jenna Kowalski has a list on her phone. It started as three questions. By the time she backed out of her driveway in Royal Oak and pointed the minivan up I-75 toward the Strive OP clinic in Sterling Heights, it had grown to eleven.
Her son Theo is four. He was born with a brachial plexus injury on his right side, and his occupational therapist has been working with him since...
AFO, KAFO, HKAFO: Three Sets of Letters, One Leg, and What Every Parent Should Know
October 7, 2026
A parent in Sterling Heights sits in an exam room on a Tuesday afternoon. The appointment has gone well enough. The clinician was kind. Then, in about ninety seconds, three sets of initials go by: AFO, KAFO, HKAFO.
The parent nods. The parents write them down. And the parent drives home on Van Dyke with no clear idea what any of them mean.
That happens every day in Shelby Township, Warren, Royal...
