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NC scientists create new device to help injured walk using less...
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Sawicki is a biomedical engineer and locomotion physiologist in the joint N.C. State/University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Department of Biomedical Engineering. Other team members are Dr. Steven Collins of Carnegie Mellon University and Dr. Bruce Wiggin, a former NCSU graduate student.
Researchers improve efficiency of human walking (w/ video) (Update)
phys.org
Collins, Sawicki and co-author M. Bruce Wiggin succeeded where so many in the past had failed by performing careful analyses of the biomechanics of human walking and then designing a simple, ultra-light-weight device that relieved the calf muscle of its efforts when it wasn't doing any productive work.
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