Adaptive Technologies Adapt to a Better Life!
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When life knocks you down, don’t quit! Adapt to the next step with Adaptive Technologies – Lethbridge’s newest prosthetic and orthotic care facility. Adaptive Technologies is a team of four friends; friendly faces who you may have seen before! Including Ryan Cochrane, Emilie Soper, Koji Duncan and Rianna Wilson. These four have band together to create Adaptive Technologies so they can help their patients achieve a better quality of life.
Primarily, their main goal is to provide awesome patient centred care. They realize that every individual is different. Each one has their own challenges and their own unique goals. Whether they want to walk again, or find relief from chronic pain, or maybe shoot a bow and arrow with a prosthetic arm in the Special Olympics (which is a true story, btw), Adaptive Technologies is a trusted, care-centred place you can turn to. You can find Adaptive Technologies near the Casino, on 41st street south. It’s a 2700 square foot facility that features four patient rooms so they can provide services related to prosthetics, orthotics, and pedorthics. Most impressively, they use state of the art technology to manufacture individual prosthetics, orthotics and pedorthics right there – in house!
“It all begins with a discussion,” Ryan Cochrane explains. “First, we want to know what hurts, where it hurts, and when it hurts. Then we move on from there.” Their patient consultations are thorough, and sometimes the end result is deciding that a patient doesn’t even need a brace to begin with! “Often times, clients will want a quick fix by treating the symptom but not necessarily the cause,” Cochrane says. “But as we are genuinely here to help, we’ll encourage them to try chiropractic care, massage therapy, or physical therapy before making a big investment with orthotics.”
And Ryan would know! He holds a bachelor of kinesiology, with an Athletic Therapy major; plus acquired his Massage Therapy diploma all before receiving his credentials as a certified Orthotist and Prosthetist. Cochrane even had the privilege of working with the U of C Football Team, Volleyball Team, Dinos Swim Club, Calgary Colts and the Women’s National Hockey Team, which he credits with developing his assessment skills. On the other hand, sometimes an orthotic, such as a knee brace, armband or plantar fasciitis support or a custom made dog brace can truly be beneficial to a client. Duncan adds that “braces work well at reducing pain medication.”
