{"id":59960,"date":"2012-04-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-neuromuscular-rehab-lab-nunnery-prosthetics-to-host-east-greenwich-high-school-students\/"},"modified":"2012-04-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T00:00:00","slug":"uri-neuromuscular-rehab-lab-nunnery-prosthetics-to-host-east-greenwich-high-school-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2012\/04\/uri-neuromuscular-rehab-lab-nunnery-prosthetics-to-host-east-greenwich-high-school-students\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Neuromuscular Rehab Lab, Nunnery Prosthetics  to host East Greenwich High School Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\t溏心vlog免费B站 Neuromuscular Rehab Lab, Nunnery Prosthetics to host East Greenwich High School Students in <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nInnovative Prosthetics Research Demonstrations<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHO:  50 East Greenwich High School honors students, along with Helen Huang, 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of biomedical engineering; Michael Nunnery, owner of Nunnery Orthotic &amp; Prosthetic Technologies; Susan Neinstadt, anaplastologist at Prosthetic Artworks; and prosthetics users Keith Pancake, Steven Maguire and Kevin Klitz.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHAT: The students will learn about biomedical engineering technologies by participating in six hands-on activities involving high-tech prosthetic devices.  Students will attempt to walk on a treadmill while using a modified prosthetic device for able-bodied subjects; wear a \u201cmotion capture suit\u201d containing dozens of sensors to record the motion of the human body while viewing themselves on a large computer screen; communicate one-on-one with amputees to hear their stories and learn about their state-of-the-art prosthetic devices; use electrodes on their arms to control the motion of a \u201cvirtual arm;\u201d and hold\/examine life-like prosthetic parts (i.e. fingers, hands, feet, etc.); among other activities.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHERE: The 溏心vlog免费B站 Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, 2 Greenhouse Road, on the 溏心vlog免费B站 Kingston campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHEN:  Thursday, April 26, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nCONTACT:  Becky Blaine, Nunnery Orthotic &amp; Prosthetic Technologies, 401-294-4210 or 401-474-6209, becky@nunneryoandp.com, or Todd McLeish, 溏心vlog免费B站 Communications &amp; Marketing, 401-874-7892, tmcleish@uri.edu.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>溏心vlog免费B站 Neuromuscular Rehab Lab, Nunnery Prosthetics to host East Greenwich High School Students in &#13; Innovative Prosthetics Research Demonstrations &#13; WHO: 50 East Greenwich High School honors students, along with Helen Huang, 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of biomedical engineering; Michael Nunnery, owner of Nunnery Orthotic &amp; Prosthetic Technologies; Susan Neinstadt, anaplastologist at Prosthetic Artworks; and prosthetics users [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}