{"id":52532,"date":"2018-03-22T15:24:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T19:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/?p=52532"},"modified":"2018-03-22T16:06:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T20:06:40","slug":"bu-todaymove-over-iron-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/bu-todaymove-over-iron-man\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>BU Today:<\/em> A wearable robot could help stroke survivors walk farther and faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(2\/20\/18, <em>BU Today<\/em>) \u201c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/profile\/louis-awad\/\">Lou Awad<\/a><span> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/profile\/terry-ellis-pt-phd-ncs\/\">Terry Ellis<\/a><span>, both Sargent College of Health &amp; Rehabilitation Sciences assistant professors of physical therapy, are part of the team behind the medical exosuit, a wearable robot that can help people who have had a stroke walk faster, farther, and more safely. Instead of Iron Man\u2019s titanium, it has breathable wraps made from proprietary materials, thin cables, and a series of small motors that help it mimic human muscles and tendons<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2018\/medical-exosuit-helps-stroke-patients-walk-again\/\">Read the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49511\" alt=\" Boston, Massachusetts Portrait of Sargent College Assistant Professors Terry Ellis, left, and Louis Awad. Awad and Ellis are collaborating with Harvard\u2019s Wyss Institute to develop a soft exosuit that will ensure that the critical elements of gait are targeted in people who have sustained a stroke Photo by Dana Smith for Boston University Photography\" src=\"\/sargent\/files\/2017\/10\/17-1557-AWADELLIS-001a-636x424.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2017\/10\/17-1557-AWADELLIS-001a-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2017\/10\/17-1557-AWADELLIS-001a-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2017\/10\/17-1557-AWADELLIS-001a-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(2\/20\/18, BU Today) \u201c Lou Awad and Terry Ellis, both Sargent College of Health &amp; Rehabilitation Sciences assistant professors of physical therapy, are part of the team behind the medical exosuit, a wearable robot that can help people who have had a stroke walk faster, farther, and more safely. Instead of Iron Man\u2019s titanium, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5825,"featured_media":49511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5166,5144,5145],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52532"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52550,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52532\/revisions\/52550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}