NASA Technology Used to Rehab Soldiers
From: NASA Tech Briefs - 06/01/2006

A physical therapy device based on NASA-developed technology is being used by
Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, to rehabilitate military
patients - including soldiers returning from Iraq - who have spinal cord or
traumatic brain injuries. The Secure Ambulation Module (S.A.M.) is a product
of Enduro Medical Technology of East Hartford, CT. S.A.M.’s NASA roots -
profiled in a NASA Tech Briefs "Mission Accomplished" article back in July of
2003 - consist of a cable-compliant mechanism that originally was developed
for sounding rocket assemblies and robotics at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight
Center in Maryland. The technology was developed into a walker that supported
the pelvis and provided stability that mimicked the movement of the hip
joint. Enduro licensed the technology, added a joint mechanism, and created
S.A.M. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.techbriefs.com/content/view/415/36/

View of video of NASA technology used in this project:
http://techtransfer.gsfc.nasa.gov/SAM-video.html

Links:
NASA Technology Benefits PT Patients, Soldiers, Children
http://nctn.hq.nasa.gov/innovation/innovation131/A-feature-nasatech.html

NASA Technology Comes to Rescue of Injured US Troops
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/everydaylife/SAM.html

Injured United States troops being helped by NASA technology
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/06/articles/vmw/LV-VM-09-06-21.html

Goddard’s Cable-Compliant Joint Technology Gets Patients Up and Walking with SAM
http://tco.gsfc.nasa.gov/SS-SAM.html

NASA technology helping injured US troops
http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2006/08/23/nasa_technology_helping_injured_us_troops.html
http://www.rehabpub.com/news/2006-09-12_01.asp

Striding Towards Better Physical Therapy
http://command.fuentek.com/matrix/success-story.cfm?successid=97
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinoff2003/hm_8.html

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