Muscle atrophy and volumetric muscle loss (VML) are conditions of significant muscle loss that affect 25-90% of all patients in the ICU. VML is currently treated using a combination of Mechanotherapy, a technique that stimulates unconditioned muscle using mechanical stress, and physical therapy. However, these techniques heavily limit the patient's movement and cost a tremendous amount. Based on the direction of current mechanotherapy designs, our group has created two devices to stimulate unconditioned muscles using mechanical and pneumatic means.

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Creator

• Mather, Samuel
• Deroma, Kyle
• Bertone, Marino
• Yaakov Jakubovitz, Maya

Subject

• Innovation
• Project-Based Learning
• Health
• Well-Being

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 105656
• E-project-042623-222131

Keyword

• Muscle atrophy
• Mechanotherapy
• Volumetric muscle loss

Advisor

• Page, Raymond L.

Year

• 2023

Sponsor

• Giogio Giatsidis

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Date created

• 2023-04-26

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Biomedical Engineering

Source

• E-project-042623-222131

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2024-04-03