Clinical Decision-Making with Caplex

Leveraging Emulation to Test-Drive Prosthetic & Orthotic Devices
Center for Limb Loss and MoBility (CLiMB)
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Minneapolis VA Health Care System
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Brooke Army Medical Center
VA Puget Sound Health Care System

Product Details

  • Government, Healthcare
  • Healthcare
  • CDMRP OPORP

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About Project

Utilizing emulation to provide a means to rapidly test-drive enable evidence-based personalized prescriptions to optimize patient outcomes and justify reimbursement has been one of Humotech’s primary objectives since the company’s inception. Foundational research & development began at Carnegie Mellon University, and then was licensed to Humotech and further developed & evaluated by a variety of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense (DoD) research centers. This work started with emulating prosthetic feet test-drive strategies, with an emphasis on optimizing subjective patient satisfaction outcomes, and is now expanding in a variety of directions including the use of balance-related outcomes and emulation of ankle-foot orthoses, to name a few.

Phase 1

“A Prosthetic Foot Emulator to Optimize Prescription of Prosthetic Feet in Veterans and Service Members with Leg Amputations”

Lead by David Morgenroth at the VA Puget Sound, along with second and third study sites at the VA Minneapolis lead by Andrew Hansen and the Brook Army Medical Center lead by Lee Childers, and support related to subjective outcome measures from Brian Hafner.

Phase 2

“A Prosthetic Foot Test-Drive Strategy for Improving Stability and Falls-Related Outcomes in Veterans with Leg Amputations”

Lead by David Morgenroth at the VA Puget Sound, with a second study site at the VA Minneapolis lead by Sara Koehler, and support related to balance-related outcome measures from Andrew Sawers.

Phase 3

“Optimizing Ankle-Foot Orthotic Prescription Using an Emulation Test-Drive Strategy”

Lead by Brad Hendershot at Walter Reed, with a second study site at the VA Puget Sound lead by David Morgenroth.

Key Collaborators

VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Center for Limb Loss and MoBility (CLiMB)
David Morgenroth
Beth Halsne

University of Washington
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
Brian Hafner
David Morgenroth

Minneapolis VA Health Care System
VA Minneapolis Rehabilitation & Engineering Center for Optimizing Veteran Engagement & Reintegration (RECOVER)
Andrew Hansen
Sara Koehler

University of Minnesota
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
Andrew Hansen
Sara Koehler

Brooke Army Medical Center
Center for the Intrepid
Lee Childers

University of Illinois at Chicago
Locomotor Rehabilitation Laboratory
Andrew Sawers

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Uniformed Services University
Brad Hendershot

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs logo
Center for Limb Loss and Mobility logo
Uniformed Services University
RECOVER - Minneapolis VA
Brooke Army Medical Center
Brooke Army Medical Center - Center for the Intrepid
Walter Reed National Military Center
United States Army
University of Washington logo
UW Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
University of Minnesota logo
Locomotor Rehabilitation Laboratory

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