Lower Extremity Review
GaitBetter is a state-of-the-art motor-cognitive virtual reality (VR) intervention for gait rehabilitation and fall prevention. It uses gamification and semi-immersive VR to simulate motor-cognitive challenges that patients experience in everyday life. Clinically proven to accelerate more positive outcomes and reduce falls by over…
Tuli’s Soft Moves Adjustable Toe Separators provide customizable comfort and gentle alignment with a patent-pending design made from soft, medical-grade silicone gel. They help relieve pain from bunions, plantar fasciitis, hammertoes, and more while promoting circulation and relaxation by encouraging blood flow and reducing foot fatigue and are great for…
The Pedorthic Footcare Association (PFA) announced that its board’s executive committee has nominated Teresa Alpert, CO, CPed, BOCO, BOCPD, CMF, to continue her service to PFA as the next executive director effective May 31. Simultaneous to her presidency ending, Jeffery Rich, CPed, will take over as the next PFA president.
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed robotic shorts—dubbed WalkON—that enable people to walk more easily while expending measurably less energy. The aim is to keep frail individuals and in particular the elderly mobile and healthy for longer.
Waco Shoe Company’s Fusion Collection is an orthotic-grade footwear line that combines casual designs for those who value support and sporty style. The Fusion Collection for women includes Zest, a strappy sandal; Vitality, a practical clog; Energy, a versatile toe-post sandal; and Strive, a sporty slide. For men, the line-up has Fusion Energy sandal and…
The SteriShoe® shoe sanitizer is designed specifically for footwear. This patented product features dual, non-ozone producing 5-watt UVC germicidal bulbs safely housed in steel frames that slip into your shoes. Once activated, they emit light at a wavelength that disinfect and “zap” organisms that thrive in the warm, dark, damp shoe environment to…
WIM (We Innovate Mobility) is a walking assistance wearable robot designed for the active young generation, seniors seeking improved mobility, and patients recovering from lower extremity injuries. Weighing just 1.6 kilograms, it can be donned or doffed in under 30 seconds, and its compact dimensions (23cm x 6cm when folded) make it easy to carry.
Researchers from China have successfully developed an artificial muscle with mechanical properties similar to natural muscle tissue. They utilized molecular design to synthesize the artificial muscle through block copolymerization of biocompatible perfluoropolyether (PFPE) and polycaprolactone diol (PCL). By precisely tuning the intra- and intermolecular interactions of…
Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord is a promising strategy for reestablishing walking after spinal cord injury (SCI), recent studies show. But for patients suffering from muscle spasms, the stimulation protocols have a limited effect due to the unpredictable behavior of involuntary muscle stiffness related to spasticity. Muscle spasticity affects almost 70% of patients with SCI.
The proprietary bio-engineered Bridge-Enhanced® ACL Repair (BEAR®) Implant is used to facilitate healing of the torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) by acting as a bridge between the 2 ends of the torn ligament. The surgeon injects a small amount of the patient’s own blood into the implant and inserts it between the torn ends of the ACL in…
A team of researchers in the United Kingdom has developed a smart insole system that can accurately measure the body’s interaction with the ground, opening new possibilities in sports science and healthcare by estimating ground reaction forces (GRFs).
Associate Professor Ronnapee Chaichaowarat, PhD, faculty of engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, has developed an Exoskeleton Wheelchair prototype for the elderly and people with mobility problems so they can leave their wheelchair behind to stand and walk with 1 robot.
The proprietary bio-engineered Bridge-Enhanced® ACL Repair (BEAR®) Implant is used to facilitate healing of the torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) by acting as a bridge between the 2 ends of the torn ligament. The surgeon injects a small amount of the patient’s own blood into the implant and inserts it between the torn ends of the ACL in a…
ACL match injuries sustained in Germany’s first women’s league during the 2016-2017 to 2022- 2023 seasons were prospectively analysed. A high proportion of 80% of ACL injuries occurred during horizontal movements such as sprinting, stopping, change- of-direction manoeuvres and lunging.
Pain—and how well pain treatments work—differs between the sexes. Females are more likely to experience chronic pain than males. Studies have also shown that opioid painkillers are less effective in females. Several systems inside the body contribute to the perception of pain and the response to pain treatments. One of the most important is called the endogenous opioid system. Opioid-based medications work by tapping into this system.
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