“In orthopedics, weight-bearing refers to how much weight a person puts through an injured body part. During a single leg stance, an ambulatory person with no physical limitations will carry 100% of their body weight through each leg. Thus, grades of weight bearing are generally expressed as a percent or portion of this number.”
How might we design a device that can attach to a person's lower limb to sense, record, and display the amount of pressure placed on the extremity during physical therapy?
Rapid prototyping and testing of the sensor system in footpads
We hope this will add value to the medical experience of learning how to walk after a trauma, injury, and surgery, and help to improve the quality of care patients receive as they learn to walk again.
The design research project, reWalk, was conducted in STUDIO 930- a multidisciplinary studio and design consultancy agency aiming to tackle emerging assistive and health technology issues. Team Members: Steven Miller (mechanical engineering) Sandra Lwin (biomedical engineering) and Jayden Zhou (industrial design)
