Bunion Aid(TM) Wins Silver Medical Design Excellence Award

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jun 11 (MARKET WIRE) --
Alpha Orthotics Corporation today announced that Bunion Aid, a new
day/night flexible hinged foot splint for mild to moderate bunions,
received a Silver 2009 Medical Design Excellence Award. Bunion Aid can be
worn in a wide shoe during the day, which helps both women and men return
to an active lifestyle. Bunion Aid is easy to apply, fits on the left or
right foot and one size fits all. The Bunion Aid splint was designed and
manufactured by Alpha Orthotics' parent company Hallufix AG in Munich,
Germany. Bunion Aid was honored during a special ceremony at the Medical
Device & Design East Exposition and Conference in New York City yesterday.

The Medical Design Excellence Awards competition is organized and
presented by Canon Communications LLC (Los Angeles) and is the only
awards program that exclusively recognizes contributions and advances in
the design of medical products. Entries are evaluated on the basis of
their design and engineering features, including innovative use of
materials, user-related functions that improve healthcare delivery and
change traditional medical attitudes or practices, features that provide
enhanced benefits to the patient, and the ability of the product
development team to overcome design and engineering challenges so that
the product meets its clinical objectives.

"Bunion Aid has been honored in Europe so it feels great to receive a top
award in the United States for innovative medical design," said Gaby
Federal, CEO of Alpha Orthotics Corporation. "Bunion Aid is the first
hinged splint of its kind that can be worn while doing activities such as
walking, dancing, running or golfing."

Bunion Aid is a combination of a medical-grade plastic splint and
Velcro(R) fastening metatarsal and toe straps. The plastic portion of the
splint is hinged and fastened along the inside border of the foot with a
toe and metatarsal strap. The straps and the splint provide three-point
correction of the bunion deformity throughout the gait cycle. The
metatarsal arch is optimally stabilized, the bunion relieved, the
mal-positioning of the toe corrected and the foot brought back and held
in its natural position. Bunion Aid can be purchased on the Alpha
Orthotics website at http://www.alphaorthotics.com, and costs $59.95.

A comprehensive review of the entries was performed by an impartial,
multidisciplinary panel of third-party jurors with expertise in biomedical
engineering, human factors, industrial design, medicine, and diagnostics.

About Alpha Orthotics Corporation USA

Alpha Orthotics Corporation (http://www.alphaorthotics.com) is a wholly
owned subsidiary of German Hallufix Corporation. Alpha Orthotics
Corporation markets and sells patented, German-engineered non-invasive
orthotics products directly to consumers and to the medical community.

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