Marty and Peg Carlson founded Tamarack with the help of six highly capable employees. The company started out designing and fabricating custom orthoses, prostheses and adaptive equipment. Serving the needs of people with very severe and/or multiple conditions quickly became our specialty. During the mid 90’s, Medicare and Medicaid funding policy changes made it difficult to sustain the provision of innovative custom equipment for the people who needed it. In 1995, Tamarack developed a unique, inexpensive, highly durable orthotic joint, the Tamarack Flexure Joint, which remains to this day a leading choice for O&P professionals worldwide