{"id":201399,"date":"2024-12-12T11:54:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T17:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/tiny-sensors-offer-new-hope-for-faster-bone-injury-recovery"},"modified":"2024-12-12T11:54:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T17:54:30","slug":"tiny-sensors-offer-new-hope-for-faster-bone-injury-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/tiny-sensors-offer-new-hope-for-faster-bone-injury-recovery","title":{"rendered":"Tiny sensors offer new hope for faster bone injury recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-sensors-offer-new-hope-for-faster-bone-injury-recovery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tiny implantable sensors are helping University of Oregon researchers optimize the process of recovery from severe bone injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the UO\u2019s Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact have developed miniature <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/implantable+sensors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">implantable sensors<\/a> that transmit <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/real-time+data\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">real-time data<\/a> about what\u2019s happening at an injury site. In a new study, they use the technology to show that a resistance-training rehabilitation program can significantly improve femur injuries in rats in just eight weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The sensors provide a window into the mechanical properties of the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/bone\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bone<\/a>, giving scientists detailed ongoing data about the process of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/healing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">healing<\/a>. If someday applied in humans, these sensors could allow doctors to better tailor a rehabilitation program to an individual patient, monitoring their progress and adjusting the exercises along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny implantable sensors are helping University of Oregon researchers optimize the process of recovery from severe bone injuries. Scientists at the UO\u2019s Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact have developed miniature implantable sensors that transmit real-time data about what\u2019s happening at an injury site. In a new study, they use the technology [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}