MSK Innovation Awardees

2024 Competition Details

Participating Teams:

  • Team Sensalog:“Validation of a Miniature Device for Tracking Whole-body Physiological Sign”
  • Team DigitsRehab: "An Innovative Remote Upper Extremity Assessment Platform”
  • Team NerveWay: "High Resolution Post-Surgical Nerve Imaging for Surgeons”

Winner: Team DigitsRehab: A Comprehenisve 3D/4D Ultrasound Scanning Device

 

2023 Competition Details

Participating Teams:

  • Team Step Sciences: Manufacturing Custom Sensorimotor Insoles via novel 3D Printing Technology
  • Team RCM Sonic Solutions: A Comprehenisve 3D/4D Ultrasound Scanning Device

Winner: Team RCM Sonic Solutions (NovaVue): A Comprehenisve 3D/4D Ultrasound Scanning Device

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Western Engineering champions innovations in healthcare research

2022 Competition Details

Participating Teams:

  • Team Kopacz: Manufacturing Custom Sensorimotor Insoles via novel 3D Printing Technology
  • Team Robinson: Vessl Prosthetics Inc.: automatically adjusting prosthetic socket for below-knee amputees

Winner: Team Robinson: Vessl Prosthetics Inc.: automatically adjusting prosthetic socket for below-knee amputees

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Novel innovations to enhance everyday mobility comfort for all

Western graduates create innovative new design for prosthetic legs

2021 Competition Details

Participating Teams:

  • Team Abdic: The Simultaneous Multi-View System for Virtual MSK Health Interactions 
  • Team Cunning: The MAC Network: Accelerating The Transition From Volume to Value
  • Team Deans: Pickle: An App-Based Diagnostic Decision Aid for Musculoskeletal Complaints
  • Team Reeves: ONPoint: Translating Objective Balance Assessment to Clinical and Home Use

Winner: Team Deans: Pickle: An App-Based Diagnostic Decision Aid for Musculoskeletal Complaints

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Two MSK innovation Competition winners are using technology to revolutionize primary care.

2020 Competition Details

Postponed and eventually cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2019 Competition Details

Participating Teams:

  • Team Lasswell: Edge Upper Cervical System 
  • Team Walton: BESTNeck - Treatment Strategies 
  • Team Lavdas: Active Infection Monitoring Spacer 
  • Team Versteegh: TopSpin360 for Female Soccer Players 
  • Team Bloomfield: Knee OA Wearable Sensor System 
  • Team Reeves: Star Excursion Balance Board 

Winner: 

Team Laswell: Edge Upper Cervical System

News Stories:  

A-Line Orthopaedics take the top spot at the MSK Innovation Competition 

London start-up raises the bar on spinal implats: Taking home-grown research to the international market