Jason Franz, PhD, professor of biomedical engineering, and collaborator Brian Pietrosimone, PhD, professor of exercise and sports science, recently received a $400,000 grant from NCInnovation to advance their team’s work to create a wearable system that can detect and treat harmful walking patterns linked to the early signs of knee osteoarthritis and mobility problems.
Our research labs have sophisticated force sensors and motion capture equipment that are unavailable to physical therapists and their patients, but this new grant can open the door to better accessibility. “Receiving this grant will allow us to develop an alternative – a low-cost wearable sensing and machine learning platform capable of putting these pivotal discoveries in the hands of physical therapists, thereby enhancing the health and well-being of individuals with hip and knee osteoarthritis”.
Read more about the project here.
