Engineering to enhance human mobility, play, and exploration
Ben Shuman presents at Gait & Clinical Movement Analysis Society Annual Conference and is awarded Best Paper:
Repeatability of muscle synergies between days for unimpaired individuals and individuals with cerebral palsy
Portland, OR (March 18-21, 2015)
Hwan Choi presents at Gait & Clinical Movement Analysis Society Annual Conference:
Fabrication of customized 3D-printed variable stiffness ankle foot orthoses to evaluate muscle function
Portland, OR (March 18-21, 2015)
Debra Diepenbrock presents at American Academy of Prosthetics and Orthotics:
A 3D printed wrist-driven orthosis with expanded thumb range of motion
New Orleans, LA (February 18-21, 2015)
Hwan Choi presents at American Academy of Prosthetics and Orthotics:
Changes in gastrocnemius length with AFO-FC tuning
New Orleans, LA (February 18-21, 2015)
Congratulations to Dr. Kat Steele on her NSF CAREER Award!
As a recipient, Dr. Steele will focus on individuals who rely on orthoses for assistance while walking, such as cerebral palsy and stroke survivors, in order to improve human ability. Neuromuscular control and musculoskeletal dynamics will be modeled from motion capture in order to create simulations. Dynamic simulation provides an ideal framework to specify and test different neuromuscular control strategies and expand our ability to design optimized exoskeletons. For more information, click HERE.
