Smart Prosthetic Research Highlights, A Visual Essay!

Hi Everyone and Happy New Year!

Thanks for all of your emails asking me about my work! I’m grateful for your interest and also realize I could do a better job of explaining the rat prosthetic research I am working on. The work, which my lab is undertaking with the collaboration of a Muscle Physiology Research Lab at U of M has to do with the use of a smart polymer that has been developed by that lab, made to nurture and collect signals from severed nerve ends long-term. Where my work comes in is taking the information being collected from that polymer coated nerve and processing it with the purpose of re-creating accurate high fidelity limb movements. So here is a visual essay of my work thus far on this project. The first two images and movie are abit graphic, I apologize for that, and hope they don’t put you off…

Anyway here goes!