by Bruce Brown | July 5, 2018 | General News, Medical
Rehabilitation with smart robotics opens the door to a wide and promising range of structural and neuromechanical training. Smart robotics can do more than just assist and shape body and limb movement when the robotic system itself has input in training...
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by Bruce Brown | May 8, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health
Unlike lower limbs where diabetes is usually a factor, upper limb amputations due to vascular system complications account for only a small portion of cases, according to a fact sheet from the Center for Orthotic and Prosthetic Care. Most upper limb amputations are...
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by Bruce Brown | April 21, 2016 | General News, Medical
We often write about curious, interesting, and impressive new Health Tech, but never have I been astounded as by the results of neural bypass surgery in a joint project by Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Neurological Institute and Battelle. The researchers...
by Alfred Poor | April 18, 2016 | Fitness, General News, Health
One of my favorite (if apocryphal) quotes is the answer that the notorious bank robber Willy Sutton gave when asked why he robbed banks: “Because that’s where the money is!” If you want to look for the growth in any industry, whether it’s...
by Alfred Poor | March 9, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
The future of wearable Health Tech devices depends on their ability to get under our skin. Implants are the shortest distance to reliable, always-on biometric sensing and other interactive tasks. One important barrier to this future is the size of the device. Larger...
