By Ben Coxworth January 28, 2021 The E-Knee should soon be on KickstarterC-EXOVIEW 3 IMAGES In order to minimize the chances of injury, many athletes wear a brace to help support a particularly vulnerable knee joint. Korean exoskeleton manufacturer C-EXO is taking that idea further, with a “smart” pneumatically activated knee brace. Known as the...
Knee joint injuries are typically related to sports, such as football, rugby or ice hockey, but people often do not know that such injuries may lead to joint inflammation and post-traumatic osteoarthritis. In advanced post-traumatic osteoarthritis, joint cartilage breaks down completely, causing severe joint pain, lack of mobility and even social isolation. However, the mechanisms leading to osteoarthritis are not known. Currently, it is not possible...
A study examining how molecules are transported into knee-joint tissue could have major implications for understanding and treating arthritis. UNSW biomedical engineers have shown for the first time that a mixture of variously-sized molecules in the bloodstream can be separated by the constituent tissues of a healthy knee joint. And an arthritic joint was observed to disrupt...
Scientists from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, US, have revealed a communication system between the knee joint and developing bones in mice, which controls bone growth during early development and after injury. Writing in the journal eLife, the authors suggest that bone growth is controlled not only from within the bone itself, but by neighboring cells...
