Lower Extremity Review
Northwestern University investigators have discovered the molecular signature of a subset of dopaminergic neurons with an increased vulnerability to degeneration. The findings shed light on the mechanisms at play within a small subsection of the brain’s substantia nigra, called the…
Dirk Nowitzki, a German former professional basketball player who spent his entire 21-year NBA career with the Dallas Mavericks, officially launched the Dirk Nowitzki Signature Line by Bauerfeind at the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) Annual Meeting in April and…
Exoskeletons need to interact seamlessly with their user, providing the right level of assistance at the right time to cooperate with muscles as the user moves. To help achieve this, University of Michigan researchers gave users direct control to customize the behavior of an ankle exoskeleton.
Hanger, Inc. and Ottobock announced a critical enrollment milestone has been reached in the ASCENT K2 (ASsessing outComes with microprocEssor kNee uTilization in a K2 population) clinical trial. The study began enrolling patients in July 2021, and has now closed enrollment, having met the target enrollment of 100 K2-level community ambulators.
Electrical field (EF) stimulation has been shown to accelerate wound healing with limited side effects. However, the wearable EF stimulation devices that have been devised to date use bulky, inflexible electrodes, resulting in conformational incompatibility with the wound. Fabricating these electrodes also requires dedicated technologies.
Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands, launched a platform for people with Parkinson’s Disease. It contains 7 gait strategies that can help Parkinson’s patients with walking. The website has been developed for patients, their loved ones, and Parkinson’s healthcare providers. It is dedicated to the creative ways to improve gait.
Innovation Lab, the Innovation Institute’s national healthcare incubator, and MultiCare Health System, a Washington state not-for-profit healthcare organization, announced the development of the Gait MyoElectric Stimulator (GMES), a functional electrical stimulation (FES) device that uses dual stimulator technology to help…
Mayo Clinic has launched the Limb Loss and Preservation Registry, a national collaborative warehouse for data on people who have lost limbs. The goal of the registry is to generate knowledge about which advances make a difference in the care of people with limb loss and limb difference.
University of Connecticut (UConn) bioengineers successfully regrew cartilage in a rabbit’s knee, a promising hop toward healing joints in humans. The lab of UConn bioengineer Thanh Nguyen, PhD, has been working on cartilage regeneration, and they’ve discovered that electrical signals are key to normal growth.
To prevent diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs), research scientists at The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) have developed footwear technology that relieves pressure on areas of the feet that experience high stress during walking and other activities. The technology was developed in partnership with the University of North Texas Health…
Hanger, Inc. has completed and published the seventh and final study in its Mobility Analysis of Amputees (MAAT) series, which represents the largest national analyses of mobility among lower limb prosthetic users. The series, which has been published regularly by the Hanger Institute for Clinical Research and…
Salus University, Elkins Park, PA, will be launching a new master’s program in Orthotics and Prosthetics (O&P), which will be housed within the College of Health Sciences, Education and Rehabilitation. The university is seeking accreditation by the National Commission on Orthotic and Prosthetic Education (NCOPE).
The 105th annual National Assembly of the American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association (AOPA) will be held September 28 – October 1, 2022, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, TX. New for 2022 is a 2-day education track on orthotic and prosthetic digital care, a 2-day education…
Biomechanical gait analysis can be a helpful tool when it comes to diagnosing gait problems and subsequently treating them. However, “until now there has been a worldwide lack of reference data for healthy persons,” said Fabian Horst, PhD, of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany.
The intuitive process of walking is difficult to imitate in a natural, comfortable way for people who use robotic prostheses and exoskeletons. Toward this end, to better teach a prosthetic knee to act as naturally as possible, research collaboration based at Arizona State University (ASU) and North Carolina State University…
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