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Welcome to the Active Knee Rehabilitation Orthotic Devices Home Page.

 

 
 
 

Recent PRESS RELEASES:

“Robotics Projects for Stroke Rehab Receive Major Federal Grants,” NU Press Release, November 18, 2008.

“Northeastern University and WGI, Inc. Sign R&D and License Agreement for Electro-Rheological Fluid (ERF) Technology,” NU Press Release, May 21, 2007.

 
 
Our team received the 2004 Best of What’s New Award in the Personal Health category from the magazine Popular Science for the invention: “Smart Orthotic Device Using Electrorheological Fluids”.
 
 

Our work on SMART FLUIDS and REHABILITATION DEVICES has been cited in the following newspapers and portals:

 

The Boston Globe - Boston.com
"Robotic Support for Injured Joints", May 21, 2007.

 

Mass High Tech, The Journal of New England Technology
"NU Partners with WGI on Physical Rehabbing Devices", June 11, 2007.

“Opportunity Knocks: NU, Scandius Launch Knee Projects”,  Sept. 26, 2005.

 

The Northeastern Voice,
“Robots in Rehab,” January 24, 2006.
“Hi Robot,” January 18, 2005.

 

MIT Technology Review,

“Brace Yourself”, September 2004, p. 18.

 

New York Times

“Resistance Is Fruitful: 'Smart' Brace Retrains Injured Joints”, October 7, 2004.

 

Technovelgy.com
“AKROD v2 - Active Knee Rehabilitation Device Human Trials”,  Sept 2005.

 

Health IT World News

'”Smart Fluids' Technology Electrifies Joint Therapy, Other Health Applications”, Sept. 28, 2004.

Medical News Today
“Using Smart Fluids to Retrain Muscles for Physical Rehabilitation”, May 22 2004,

The Industrial Physicist

"Smart Fluids Move Into the Marketplace", December 2003/January 2004, pp. 14-17.

 

Science Blog

USING ''SMART FLUIDS'' TO RETRAIN MUSCLES: NU engineering prof designs a new kind of orthotic device

 

Science Daily

"Using 'Smart Fluids' To Retrain Muscles"

 

physorg.com

"Using Smart Fluids to Retrain Muscles"

 

News-Medical.Net

Using 'Smart Fluids' To Retrain Muscles"