Pain of Artificial Legs Could Be Eased by Real-Time Monitoring 
From: Product Design & Development
By: Michelle Ma

Many people who use prostheses experience pain on a daily basis where their
skin meets the socket, particularly those who have diabetes or other diseases
that affect their physiology.

University of Washington engineers aim to ease this discomfort with research
that could help build better sockets. They have developed a device that
tracks how much a person's limb swells and shrinks when inside a prosthetic
socket. The data could help doctors and patients predict how and when their
limbs will swell, which could be used to build smarter sockets.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.pddnet.com/news/2013/07/pain-artificial-legs-could-be-eased-real-time-monitoring
http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/07/23/pain-of-artificial-legs-could-be-eased-by-real-time-monitoring/

Links:
Joan Sanders
http://depts.washington.edu/bioe/people/core/sanders.html

Sanders' UW Research Lab
http://depts.washington.edu/jsweb/

Residual Limb Volume Fluctuation
http://depts.washington.edu/jsweb/CurrentResearchRLVF.html

Careful Monitoring Eases Prosthetic Leg
http://www.medicaldesignbriefs.com/component/content/article/16952