New technology to increase comfort with prostheses

(Source – blogs.va.gov/VAntage)

The Advanced Platform Technology Center at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center is highly regarded for developing innovative technologies that serve Veterans with sensory, motor or cognitive deficits, as well as limb loss.

Advanced robotics, bionic limbs, microchips and neural interfaces are some of the more glitzy projects that result from the ingenuity at the VA facility, which is also known as the APT Center.

At the same time, scientists, engineers and clinicians at the APT Center work on technologies that are less “sexy” on the surface, but are just as important as the others. One of the ongoing projects is developing material to better absorb and channel the sweat that can build up inside the socket liner of a prosthesis.  Continue reading blog here…

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