{"id":1006,"date":"2022-10-17T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T14:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2022-10-17T10:30:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T14:30:56","slug":"developing-an-ankle-exoskeleton-to-assist-the-mobility-of-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/developing-an-ankle-exoskeleton-to-assist-the-mobility-of-older-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing an Ankle Exoskeleton to Assist the Mobility of Older Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIE Assistant Professor Seungmoon Song was awarded a $747K NIH grant from the National Institute of Aging for &#8220;Simulation Framework to Develop Ankle Exoskeleton Gait Assistance for Older Adults.&#8221; The study will develop and evaluate how ankle-exoskeleton assistance affects metabolic energy consumption, walking speed, and pain during walking in healthy young and older adults, as well as in older adults with knee osteoarthritis.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1007\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/song-s-rect-300x200.png\" alt=\"Seungmoon Song headshot\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/song-s-rect-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/10\/song-s-rect.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"btn bg--red --lg\" href=\"https:\/\/coe.northeastern.edu\/news\/developing-an-ankle-exoskeleton-to-assist-the-mobility-of-older-adults\/\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIE Assistant Professor Seungmoon Song was awarded a $747K NIH grant from the National Institute of Aging for &#8220;Simulation Framework to Develop Ankle Exoskeleton Gait Assistance for Older Adults.&#8221; The study will develop and evaluate how ankle-exoskeleton assistance affects metabolic energy consumption, walking speed, and pain during walking in healthy young and older adults, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/developing-an-ankle-exoskeleton-to-assist-the-mobility-of-older-adults\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-success","category-faculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}