Ankle Stabilizer

Ankle Stabilizer

The SKY Stabilizer™ provides featherlight and streamlined support to athletes with healthy ankles and who want to keep them that way. The device is engineered to aid in promoting a more stable positioning range, thereby reducing potential for serious injury that could lead to chronic ankle instability.

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Inventor’s Corner/How I Built That: All Carbon Fiber Footwear Plates Are Not Alike

Inventor’s Corner/How I Built That: All Carbon Fiber Footwear Plates Are Not Alike

The evolution of carbon fiber plate technology has accelerated in the past few years becoming an integral part of high-end running shoes produced by many of the top brands. The Nike Vaporfly first debuted in 2017 and its popularity, along with its performance, prompted a new paradigm in running shoe technology. The Vaporfly series features a rocker-shaped carbon fiber plate embedded in the…

By Matthew Arciuolo, C.Ped. BOC

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Plantar Pressure Mapping and Lower Body Testing in Sport

Plantar Pressure Mapping and Lower Body Testing in Sport

Published by Antonio Robustelli on Jan 19, 2022 11:26:06 AM Many athletes rely on their lower body kinetic chain — that’s their toes, feet, ankles, lower legs, knees, upper legs, hips, pelvis, and spine — to play sports. Testing the function and biomechanics of an...

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Movement Is Essential

Movement Is Essential

Happy 13th birthday Lower Extremity Review! Like any growing teenager, we’ve been through some changes, but there are plenty more still to come! Just before the pandemic started, we began to identify and understand what LER’s users wanted to learn more about so we could better focus our coverage.

By Janice T. Radak, Editor

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I Agree! Movement Is Essential!

I Agree! Movement Is Essential!

Happy 13th Anniversary LER!! So happy to see the new editorial pillar and can’t wait to see the growing body of evidence that supports the idea behind Movement Is Essential. Humans are made to move – it’s essential, it’s healthy, it’s fun! Restrictions and problems with movement, like pain and discomfort from injuries and certain medical conditions, have always been challenging.

By Robert Weil, DPM

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Making Robotic Assistive Walking More Natural

Making Robotic Assistive Walking More Natural

A team of graduate students in Caltech’s Advanced Mechanical Bipedal Experimental Robotics Lab (AMBER), led by Professor Aaron Ames, PhD, Bren Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering and Control and Dynamical Systems, is developing a new method of generating gaits for robotic assistive devices; their goal is to…

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