URI researcher trips amputees in effort to develop improved prosthetic legs
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 14:07
in Health & Medicine
KINGSTON, R.I. -- September 15, 2009 -- Again and again, 71-year-old Marjorie Brasier walked on the treadmill using an instrumented prosthetic leg, and again and again she tripped or slipped. Sometimes she recovered on her own and kept walking, while at other times the harness she wore was all that kept her from tumbling to the floor.
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