ORLANDO, Fla. - In 2006 Frost and Sullivan looked at the brace and support industry and said that osteoarthritis (OA) braces were the fastest growing segment of the brace market. According to a sales representative here, that is not a surprise.

"We know the baby boomers are in their arthritis years, they are more active than previous older generations, they are heavier, their knees take a pounding and their numbers are going to continue to swell for a few more years. So, that is why Frost and Sullivan predicted there would be this surge in the knee brace business," Thomas McGovern, co-owner of Heritage Medical said here at the 2010 American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association's National Assembly. "I've been doing this for 15 years. I keep looking for this surge but I am not seeing it."

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