Before it was Cole Orthotic Pediatric Center, headed by George Cole in the 1950s, it was known as Bulach Orthopedic Appliance Center. Established in 1920, it was owned by Joseph Bulach, an uncle of George.

George was introduced to the business of making orthopedic appliances in the late 1930s while a teenager watching his uncle customize and fabricate them. He gained more knowledge while accompanying a local physician who wrote prescriptions for patients needing the devices.

After completing his apprenticeship, George enlisted in the Army during World War II, and was assigned to a unit in England. As the war raged, he was about to be sent to the Battle of the Bulge in France. But while still in England, a commander summoned him to return to the United States where he was assigned to Walter Reed Medical Center to make orthopedic braces for soldiers injured in the war.

After George fulfilled his military duties, he resumed working at Bulach’s and purchased the company from his uncle in the 1950s. George headed Bulach Orthopedic Appliance Company for many years at a time when development of the devices remained rudimentary compared to today’s standards. In the 1950s, the process to fabricate orthopedic appliance amounted to pounding out heated metal bars on anvils and hand-machining the components. George would fashion surgical steel, leather, and wood to help patients walk and straighten their curved spines.

In the early 1980s, George changed the company name to Cole Orthotics Inc. and turned the business over to his son, Daniel. George continued to help build braces and oversee the accounting. He passed away at the age of 80 on May 8, 2002.

Daniel Cole moved the business to a larger building in the 1990s and renamed it Cole Orthotics and Prosthetics Center, Inc. In 2008, Daniel decided to dedicate his practice exclusively to pediatric patients and retitled it Cole Orthotic Pediatric Center.

In 2023, ownership was transitioned to Leimkuehler Orthotic-Prosthetic Center; however, Daniel Cole will continue to see patients.

The business is now Cole Leimkuehler Orthotic-Prosthetic Center.

Leimkuehler Orthotic-Prosthetic Center has been serving residents of Northeast Ohio since 1948 with offices in Amherst, Sandusky and N. Olmsted.