Memorial University’s very first biomedical engineering design team came out on top at the True North Biomedical Competition at Western University in London, Ontario this week.
Third year electrical engineering student Emily Pike says they built a sensor-driven sleeve to help athletes with knee injuries.
She says the post-op smart sleeve is used for rehabilitation following a tear to the ACL ligament. “To facilitate the rehab process, we built a sleeve that you can put on the knee to understand how strong your muscles are, and the range of motion of the leg.”
Claire Winsor and Emily Pike of MUN Robotics (VOCM News)
Claire Winsor says the device was given to them by the True North competition.
Winsor, who is a soccer player, says the issue of ACL injuries are near and dear to her heart. “So, when the competition reached out and they said that their chosen topic was going to be ACL rehab, we were like ‘this is perfect,’ this is a really big gap in physiotherapy and rehab right now, so it’s something that we can really put our time towards and make a big difference in medicine, so we were super excited to work on it.”
