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Oklahoma City's Orthocare Lands Grants for Prosthetic Research

Orthocare Innovations will receive about $1.4 million in federal research grants for three ongoing projects to develop advanced prosthetic-limb technologies.

Orthocare Innovations is getting a boost from the federal government for three ongoing projects.

The Oklahoma City company will use about $1.4 million in grant money to boost efforts to develop advanced prosthetic-limb technologies.

“Securing these awards is an important achievement, but the measure of success is the translation of this research into products that will have a positive effect on patient care,” CEO Doug McCormack said. “That is what Orthocare Innovations is committed to as an organization.”

System changes

A $771,000 grant from the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research will bolster Orthocare's efforts to develop an advanced prosthetic socket system, a combination of two Orthocare technologies intended to create a prosthetic socket that holds on a prosthetic limb securely and comfortably.

The National Institutes of Health awarded Orthocare more than $183,000 in grant funds to create computerized miniature hydraulic systems for artificial limb components small enough for children to wear. The systems will be adjustable to compensate for changes in growing children's movement patterns.

Orthocare received a $500,000 grant from the Department of Education to develop at touch-based feedback system that will give amputees a sense of touch through their prosthetic limbs.