Month: October 2020

First man on the ground – North America

We are proud to present our newest team-member Russell Cannon. Russell has considerable experience in the O&P Industry, just recently as Territory Manager North East at Cascade Orthopedic Supply and brings a wealth of knowledge and a valuable network of contacts to our company.
Russell is taking the role as Director of Sales, North America and will play a vital role in taking our Lindhe Xtend products to the market. Russell will, together with the Customer Service team in Naperville (IL), be the core foundation of the newly established US-subsidiary, Lindhe Xtend Inc.

A warm welcome to Russell, we are excited to have you on the team!

You can reach Russell here

Winners of ”Double Challenge” with Dagens Industri

What a fantastic surprise it was to learn that we were appointed winners of Dagens Industri’s competition ”Double Challenge”. We will now get the opportunity to get equipped and coached through the ski-race ”Stafettvasan” in March as well as the running race ”Vasakvartetten” in August. Our team will have the obvious team-name ”Xtend Your Life” and team leader is of course Christoffer.

Wish us luck and stay tuned in our social channels!

To the article in Dagens Industri (in swedish) https://www.di.se/nyheter/de-antar-tuffa-utmaningen-blandning-av-fortjusning-och-skrack/

 

University thesis investigating quick change adapters

We aim to make life easier for amputees and therefore we find it very interesting that Karl Wilsborn and Kenneth Heggdal, prosthetist students at School of Health and Welfare, University of Jönköping, have made a study focusing on the need of quick change adapters. The study was qualitative and made through interviewing 6 users, half of them transtibial amputees and half of them transfemoral amputees.

The results of the study shows that the need of quick change adapters are highly subjective, and depends more on the individuals life style than general factors. The need seems to be depending on activity level, number of components, personal attitude and other subjective factors.
Today there are only two quick change adapters on the market, and these are the two used in the study. One of these are our product Xtend Connect and we are very happy that it was percieved to be slim, easy to use and durable.

Read the full thesis in swedish (summary in english available)