Stevens Biomedical Engineering Knee Goniometer Team Wins NEBEC Student Competition
Summary
While professional sports teams can afford the time and equipment to monitor their players knee health during recovery to ensure ideal treatment, the average patient may not have access to the tools available to reveal how a torn ligament is healing.### Hoboken, NJ, April 20, 2011 --( PR.com )-- Biomedical Engineering students from Stevens Institute of Technology are keeping more athletes on the Astroturf by developing a device that monitors the angle of knee movement in injured players.A presentation of their solution - a device called a knee goniometer - recently took first place in the 37th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC) Student Design Competition.The goniometer, a microelectronic array of sensors that deduces the angle of knee movement, is the result of a Senior Design project involving Biomedical Engineering seniors Jaroslaw Lupinski, Patricia Roh, and Shing Cheung Yuen, and Varsha Menon, a first-year graduate student in BME.While professional sports teams can afford the time and equipment to monitor their players knee health during recovery to ensure ideal treatment, the average patient may not have access to the tools available to reveal how a torn ligament is healing.It is so mobile that athletes can wear it while practicing, allowing even non-injured players to constantly monitor their knee health.The student team sees economic benefits for many stakeholders in the medical industry.