Brown University Hack Health 2017: Winners
Project: Universal Prosthetic Socket for Transfemoral Amputees
Brown Hack Health is the university's annual Hackathon focused on healthcare related issues. My team addressed the issue of prosthesis availability for amputees in developing countries. Using our experiences in Vietnam and developing low-cost prostheses, we developed a concept for a prosthetic socket that can be width and length adjusted. The width would be adjusted by ski boot-like straps, and longitudinally adjusted similar to a crutch. The socket would not need to be custom-fit, addressing the issue that custom-fittings are inaccessible and expensive. However, it would work better than homemade solutions that are commonly seen. With the guidance of professors, we are currently further developing the idea to create a functional prototype.
