Next Generation Crutch Exhibited at White House Maker Faire From: Medical Design Technology - 07/09/2014 After Partha Unnava spent a summer on crutches after breaking his ankle playing basketball, he knew that things had to change. While on crutches, he experienced severe underarm pain and asked other people he knew on crutches if they experienced the same problems as he did. After hearing nearly everyone he asked complain about the same aspects of the crutch, he and two fellow biomedical engineering students at Georgia Tech, Andrew Varghese and Frankie Swindell, decided to fix the problem. Last year, the three formed a company called Better Walk and participated in a startup accelerator in Memphis, TN called Zero To 510. Better Walk is designing a more effective crutch that removes force from a crutch user's underarm area and reduces the amount of direct force through a user’s wrist. Read the entire article at: http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2014/07/next-generation-crutch-exhibited-white-house-maker-faire Links: Better Walk http://www.bwcrutches.com/ SNNLive - Better Walk (video 3:58) http://www.bwcrutches.com/press/ Zero To 510 http://zeroto510.com/