Ability Prosthetics & Orthotics, Inc. evaluates exact requirements and then designs and fits patients with custom, as well as off-the-shelf, orthotic brace and prosthetic devices. Ability PO believes in providing all patients with the most appropriate, affordable and technologically advanced orthotic brace and other devices. Jeffrey Brandt, CEO and founder/owner/practitioner of Ability PO, says that he, the owners and the talented and caring team take great pride in being at the forefront of Prosthetics and Orthotics firms making those advances available to patients to improve the quality of life through efficient and comfortable standing, walking and working. On Wednesday, June 24, Teresa Slick became the first person in South Central Pennsylvania, and one of only a dozen nationwide, to receive the custom E-Mag Active electronic stance phase control brace.

The orthotic brace is cutting-edge technology that includes a knee joint that "bionically locks and unlocks" when the patient needs the support and stability at both the ankle and knee. The revolutionary fitting took place at Ability PO's patient care center in Gettysburg. Teresa was fitted with the orthotic brace thirteen years after a car accident left her disabled. The Ability PO fitted orthotic brace will allow Teresa to get out of her wheelchair and enjoy her yard, cooking, sewing and painting and help to relieve the pain and back fatigue she has endured for so long. For Ability PO the fitting of the E-Mag Active orthotic brace marks a series of recent "firsts". Ability PO was also the first prosthetic office in Philadelphia to fit an i-LIMB bionic hand on a patient. Currently, Ability PO is fitting nine patients with i-LIMB hands and four with the E-Mag Active orthotic brace. The E-Mag Active orthotic brace, which is available only in the United States, calibrates itself to understand how patients walk and then adjusts to meet the patient's stability needs. Ability PO informs that this technology allows patients much greater mobility, flexibility and independence than they previously enjoyed. John P.

Jacobs of Ability PO is an American Board for Certification (ABC) certified orthotist and prosthetist who became interested in the profession while working as a nuclear medicine technologist upon graduating with a BS in nuclear medicine from the State University of New York at Buffalo. John chose to explore this interest further by visiting several orthotic and prosthetic facilities. He was impressed by the independence patients received when provided with an orthotic brace or artificial limb. Jeffrey T. Quelet, CPO and owner and practitioner of Ability PO, is an American Board for Certification (ABC) Certified Prosthetist and Orthotist. Jeff is currently a member of the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists (AAOP) as well as the American Prosthetic & Orthotic Association (AOPA) and his goal is to provide the highest level of care, service and education to patients when fitting them with orthotic brace devices. T. Clayton Barrow, Chief Operations Officer and Vice President of Ability PO, is an American Board for Certification (ABC) Certified Orthotist. Jared Howell, AAOP, Wendy A Carter, certified Mastectomy/orthotic fitter, and Rebecca K. Rogers, Board Eligible CP/resident CO make up the gifted Ability PO team.