The Swiss National Competence Center of Research in Robotics (NCCR) announced it is organizing a Cybathlon to be held in the Kolping Arena in Kloten, Switzerland, October 2016. The Cybathlon is a competition for parathletes using advanced assistive devices and…
Day: April 23, 2014
NCCR Robotics to host Cybathlon in 2016
The Swiss National Competence Center of Research in Robotics (NCCR) announced it is organizing a Cybathlon to be held in the Kolping Arena in Kloten, Switzerland, October 2016. The Cybathlon is a competition for parathletes using advanced assistive devices and…
Carbon Composite Partial Foot Prosthesis Provides New Treatment Option
Current treatment options in children with partial foot amputations tend to mirror adult options, and documentation of pediatric partial foot amputation, prosthetic intervention and treatment effectiveness is limited. Pamela K. Hale, CPO, Allard USA Rockaway, NJ and Active Life Inc.,…
Interdisciplinary Team Key to Assisting Patients With Spina Bifida
A presenter addressed the objectives in maximizing the ambulatory function in individuals with spina bifida by focusing on the disorder itself, fluctuating neurological status and musculoskeletal deformities that arise secondary to the muscular imbalance. Samuel Rosenfeld, MD, CHOC Children’s Hospital,…
Everyone Wants to Feel Special
Consider inviting your best customers to be on your business advisory board.
Three Tactics Provide Quality EMG Data in Powered Prostheses
CHICAGO — Elizabeth Halsne, CPO, research prosthetist at the Center for Bionic Medicine at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, presented strategies to collect high-quality surface electromyography data from an amputee’s limb to control powered lower limb prostheses at the American…
Parker Hannifin Brings Exoskeleton to Clinical Trial
Its slim profile and light weight make the Indego an option for paraplegics.
Young Innovators: SOLS Systems
3-D printing company creates personalized orthoses through a smartphone application.
Focusing on Fairness May Cause Manager Burnout
Managers who were accurate and consistent with their business decisions, and unbiased and fair to employees — known as procedural justice behaviors — experienced a greater depletion in energy, or burnout, according to study results published in the Journal of…
Amputee World War II Hero Lived Life Large to the End
The wartime heroics of “Wild Bill” Guarnere were dramatized in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers.