What's News

Lateef McLeod’s poetry on Amazon Lateef McLeod, a poet (and Cascade patient), has achieved a landmark: he’s moved from self-publishing to Amazon! His collection of poems, A Declaration of a Body of Love, is now listed on Amazon. (We profiled Lateef and reprinted a poem of his in the Winter | January 2009 Dafo Dynamics, also available at http://dafodynamics.com/winter2009/.)

Size name changes, for the better We’re changing some names for the sake of consistency. Widths for the Fast Fit® HotDog® and PattiBob® shoe inserts, formerly called Medium and Wide, are now called Narrow and Wide. The widths are the same as they have been; we simply changed their names to be consistent with our other Fast Fit products.

Pattern changes on braces    First, the Wildflowers strap trim pattern has been discontinued by the manufacturer. Then, our eForms for ordering custom DAFOs now list available transfer patterns. Simply choose the pattern you want. You can see the trim and transfer patterns we have available at www.cascadedafo.com/options.

DAFO Turbo: new toe shelf option There are now more choices for you on the DAFO Turbo outer frame. Your clinical concerns will dictate which trimline you may want on the DAFO Turbo. For example, when shoe fit is a concern but crouching is not, the proximal-to-met-heads trimline is optimal. 1) Trimmed just proximal to met heads under plantar surface 2) Trimmed distal to met heads under plantar surface 3) Full-length under plantar surface

Success stories We’ve recently added a new video section, Success Stories, to our website. Enthusiastic parents often share their child’s successful DAFO story with us. We find these to be truly inspirational and hope others will find them helpful and motivating as well, so we list links to the stories. If you have a video of your child already posted publicly online (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.), we would love to add your link to www.cascadedafo.com/videos. Please contact bizdev@dafo.com for more information. Note: All patient families for whom we’ve included links have given us approval to do so. Check out our first video! Derby’s First Steps Two days after receiving his DAFO 3.5, Derby, an 18-month-old with CP, takes his first steps.

Our website: a new look soon! We’re almost finished with a complete overhaul of www.cascadedafo.com. The kickoff will happen this summer, so stay tuned for the launch of an easier-to-use, better-organized site. We hope it meets your needs.