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title: "Research | BioApps Sdn Bhd"
description: "Clinical practice at the clinic is informed by its own published research in socket design, tissue mechanics and applied biomechanics."
url: https://bioapps.com.my/research/
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# Research

Clinical practice at the clinic is informed by its own published research in socket design, tissue mechanics and applied biomechanics.

![Residual limb casts being laser scanned in the laboratory](https://bioapps.com.my/assets/lab-scanning.jpg)

## What We Study

-   ### Tissue mechanics
    
    How soft tissue behaves under the loads a socket puts through it, which is what makes a socket comfortable or not.
    
-   ### Applied biomechanics
    
    Forces and joint motion during walking, measured rather than estimated.
    
-   ### Motion analysis
    
    Three dimensional capture of gait, used to judge whether a fitted device actually changes how a person moves.
    
-   ### Socket design
    
    The work recognised by the Forchheimer Prize, on the interface between the residual limb and the device.
    

## Judged By the Field

-   **200+**Articles in high impact ISI journals
-   **3**On motion analysis and 3D modelling
-   **20 / 26**PhD and Masters, to completion
-   **RM16m**Collaborative research funding delivered

-   ### Forchheimer Prize, 2013
    
    The most prestigious prize in prosthetics and orthotics, awarded by the International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics.
    
-   ### BLESMA Award, 2004
    
    From ISPO UK NMS, in recognition of significant contribution to the development of the prosthetic socket.
    
-   ### Three Academic Books
    
    On motion analysis systems and integrated approaches to 3D modelling, alongside patents, theses and prototypes.
    

## Selected Publications

1.  2018
    
    Improvement on upper limb body-powered prostheses (1921 to 2016): a systematic review
    
2.  2017
    
    Analysis of voluntary opening Ottobock Hook and Hosmer Hook for upper limb prosthetics: a preliminary study
    
3.  2017
    
    Analysis of interrelationships among voluntary and prosthetic leg joint parameters using cyclograms
    
4.  2015
    
    Comparison study of the prosthetics interface pressure profile of air splint socket and ICRC polypropylene socket for upper limb prosthetics
    
5.  2014
    
    Postural stability characteristics of transtibial amputees wearing different prosthetic foot types when standing on various support surfaces
    
6.  2014
    
    Development of microgripper using smart piezoelectric bimorphs
    
7.  2012
    
    The use of fiber Bragg grating sensors in biomechanics and rehabilitation applications: the state of the art and ongoing research topics
    

### Also produced

-   Higher degree theses supervised to completion
-   Patents arising from socket and device design
-   Working prototypes tested in the clinic
-   Ongoing research with national and international partners