A project to design and test a low-cost body powered prosthesis system
Alix works at the University of Salford as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2012, she graduated with a Masters in Medical Engineering from the University of Bath, and since then has pursued her ambitions of working with prosthetics. Her PhD thesis, which she completed at Salford in 2018, focussed on understanding why people struggle to control myoelectric prostheses, and her current work takes a similar approach to allow us to understand how we could improve body-powered devices.
Our latest paper on #walkingaids is out in Gait & Posture
We showed body weight transfer positively correlates with stability; narrow walking frames decrease stability and should be used with caution; lower height frames don't increase loading on frame.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2020.09.017
.@JennyOlsenEng's recent work on the promises and pitfalls of #3Dprinting and upper-limb #prosthetics sockets is now available on @biorxivpreprint
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.21.306050v1
