Research
You can make an impact in limb difference research
This week, I am full of stories of dads who are contributing to the limb difference community. Today I wanted to give you the heads up about a research project that you may be able to help. There is an online survey that ends at the end of the week and I hope we can…
Read More +Brain Images Share the Secrets of Limb Differences
Earlier in 2013, I discovered a research lab in my town that is focused on how the brain manages limb differences. It’s pretty remarkable. I’ve stayed in touch with Scott Frey, the director of Brain Imaging Center & Rehabilitation Neuroscience Lab at the University of Missouri. He recently reached out to share and update in his…
Read More +Limb difference research in my own backyard
There are moments where you have to wonder how the heck it all worked out the way it worked out. Remember back in the fall when Jordan had a chance to meet Hayden Filson? Well, their meeting was in the newspaper. That’s when a researcher in Columbia, MO reached out to me and wondered if…
Read More +Looking at the future
I’m really interested in the many changes in prosthetics as the military invests in tools to help support soldiers who lost limbs in Iraq or Afghanistan. When Jordan was very young, I reached out to a researcher named Todd Kuiken who was working on bionics in Chicago. He told me that he was certain prosthetics…
Read More +I wish Todd Kuiken was my best friend
Thanks to the Failure to Form blog, I read about how Northwestern University’s Dr. Todd A. Kuiken’s work to advance nerve-based prosthetics is improving. Dr. Kuiken had an email conversation with me three months after Jordan was born. I tracked him down after a friend of mine at CNN tipped me off on his work.…
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