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WearLab Solutions in Ames: using fashion to enhance prosthetics comfort
Prosthetic limbs allow amputees the ability to manipulate objects, walk up stairs, and better fit into our 4-limbed world, but for hundreds of years, comfort still plagues people who use them. Chafing, rashes, muscle and join pain come with the territory but co-counders Dr. Rachel Eike and Bahar H. Esfahani are designing a better fitting system.
Dr. Eike is a professor at Iowa State University and Esfahani is a Graduate Research Assistant who participated on this project in class. What started as a class project has turned into a full-fledged business the pair hopes will deliver much-needed…
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