Virginia Tech Uses Computerized Knee Brace for Rehab

jimCATDOG writes: "College running back Lee Suggs was injured in VT's first football game, requiring knee surgery and the rest of the season off. VT cares about having the Big East's most prolific scorer healthy. The cool part is that they are using a computerized knee brace to help bring him back to full speed." As the tools available to medical rehabilition improve, what other advances can we expect in the near future?

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Not just for Recovery..

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This would be a great motivator for workouts, and probably is if anyone is up on exercise trainers. In terms of feedback while working through a set pattern it reminds me of Don Bluth's Dragon's Lair, not much more sophisticated than that and motion sensors, if you think about it.

As far as actual healing, football has done much for patients of knee problems, as teams and athletes alike are determined to keep valuable players in the game, where a torn ligament decades ago was a career ending injury.

Currently I'm planning to have some knee work done, due to calcification of the anterior of the patella (I put my knee through ice at 11 and created microfractures which healed like sand paper, can hurt like the dickens) something like what Suggs is outfitted with might assist in my recovery program, but it still doesn't cause it to heal faster or tell where healing is at, that's still up to mother nature.