QL+ Program Manager:
Barbara Springer
PT, PhD, OCS
The mission of the George Washington University is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings of such research.
barb.springer@qlplus.org
Ms. Salak is a retired Army veteran who enjoys an active lifestyle. However, Ms. Salak recently sustained an injury and now uses an above-knee prosthetic. To stay active, she frequently rides her handcycle, both leisurely on local trails and competitively in marathons....
The GW Hiking Prosthetic challenge is being executed in accordance with the Quality of Life Plus (QL+) Program. The specific client, or challenger, for this project, is Rob Jones, a double transfemoral amputee. Rob served as a combat engineer in the Marine Corps; during a deployment to Afghanistan in 2010, he was wounded in action by a landmine....
Hiking and walking on uneven terrain are challenges for many transfemoral amputees. This challenge becomes even more difficult when someone is a double transfemoral amputee. Quality of Life Plus and our client, Rob Jones, presented us with the challenge to design and build a solution that will allow him and other prosthetic users to hike on uneven terrain more efficiently....
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