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Friction

TED Radio Hour

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How to Make a Prosthetic Leg More Human

Amputees have most of their pain on the fibula head and then on the tibia. We use a 3D printer to create a multi-material prosthetic socket which relieves pressure when needed. I use magnetic resonance imaging to capture the actual shape of the patient's anatomy, then use Finite element modeling to better predict the internal stresses and strains on the normal forces.

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