This $100,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) supports the development of innovative exoskeleton technologies as next-generation alternatives to traditional ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) for adolescents with Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease. The awardee, Results Group, LLC, is a small disadvantaged business focused on advanced assistive technologies and rehabilitation devices. Through this grant,...
This $1,499,872 federal Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency's Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) supports the development of an exoskeleton-integrated boot system to facilitate rehabilitation and return to duty for military personnel with lateral ankle sprains. The primary awardee, Results Group, LLC, is a small disadvantaged business specializing in advanced assistive technologies and rehabilitation devices. The funding will enable Results Group to...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) provides $199,750 to The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), in partnership with Results Group LLC, to evaluate the effectiveness of novel exoskeleton footwear with an integrated spring footplate (Flyband Exoshoe) for patients with transmetatarsal amputation (TMA). The key objectives are to: 1) engineer and evaluate different stiffness levels of the passive...
This $1,032,031 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will support the development and pilot testing of a novel, cost-effective in-home gait training device for the neurological patient population. The awardee, Healing Innovations, Inc., is developing the "Rise & Walk Inhome" (RWH) system, which provides body weight support and assisted gait training to...
This $762,104 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of versatile wearable robots to rehabilitate gait disabilities in children with cerebral palsy. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the three-year award period runs from February 2022 to March 2025. Specifically, the grant recipient - North Carolina State University - will enhance the usability and comfort of a powered knee exoskeleton designed to improve gait biomechanics and walking metabolic...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) to Springwear, LLC in Baltimore, MD. The grant, titled "HANDSOME I: EXOSKELETON FOR ASSISTIVE USE WITH STROKE SURVIVORS", aims to support the development of an exoskeleton technology to assist stroke survivors. The project has a performance period from June 1,...
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $613,744 Project Grant under the "Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health" (CFDA 93.286) program to Assistive Technology Development, Inc. The funding will support the development, testing, and evaluation of a lightweight, cost-effective telerehabilitation device that provides motorized exercise modes coupled with blood flow restriction to enhance the...
This $862,500 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), part of the ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research program (CFDA 93.433), supports a two-year effort by Neurotechr3 Inc., a minority and woman-owned small business, to develop an innovative therapeutic exergame product called Rehabilitation Technologies for Hand and Arm (R3THA). The goal is to create an...
This $750,000 Project Grant award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Congressional Directives program (CFDA 93.493) will fund the rehabilitation and expansion of Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Cheshire Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. The award will enable the acquisition of FDA-approved medical devices, including powered lower limb exoskeletons and tethered gait training systems, to enhance the center's capacity for in-patient and outpatient rehabilitative...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will fund the development of a novel passive, compliant ankle prosthetic device called the APTO-Ankle. The $293,514 award to Orthocare Innovations LLC, a prosthetic device company, will support the design, prototyping, bench testing, and clinical evaluation of this unpowered ankle prosthesis. The goal is to...