{"id":9954,"date":"2014-01-25T08:29:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T16:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9954"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:17:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:17:45","slug":"soft-pneumatic-exoskeleton-could-be-perfect-for-use-in-rehab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/soft-pneumatic-exoskeleton-could-be-perfect-for-use-in-rehab","title":{"rendered":"Soft pneumatic exoskeleton could be perfect for use in rehab"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"summary_details_left\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/author\/ben-coxworth\/\" rel=\"author\">Ben Coxworth \u2014 gizmag<br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"summary_details_left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"summary_details_left\">We\u2019ve recently been hearing a lot about how exoskeletons can be used in rehabilitation, guiding patients\u2019 disabled limbs through a normal range of motion in order to develop muscle memory. The problem is, most exoskeletons are rigid, limiting their degrees of freedom to less than those of the body part they\u2019re moving. A team of scientists are looking at changing that, with a partial \u201csoft exoskeleton\u201d that replicates the body\u2019s own muscles, tendons and ligaments.<\/div>\n<div class=\"summary_details_left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/soft-exoskeleton-ankle-rehabilitation\/30542\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ben Coxworth \u2014 gizmag We\u2019ve recently been hearing a lot about how exoskeletons can be used in rehabilitation, guiding patients\u2019 disabled limbs through a normal range of motion in order to develop muscle memory. The problem is, most exoskeletons are rigid, limiting their degrees of freedom to less than those of the body part [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1516],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-exoskeleton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47274,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954\/revisions\/47274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}