CAREN system featuring in the summer issue of MS&T
The summer edition of MS&T magazing features an article titled
WOUNDED WARRIORS. The article contains information and impressions of the CAREN systems usage at the US Army (both at WALTER REED AND BAMC. The article spans across pages 10 to 13.

CAREN system featuring in the summer issue of DEFENCE STANDARD magazine
The summer 2009 edition of DEFENCE STANDARD magazing features an article titled
BROOKE - dedicated to treating heroes among us. The article contains information and impressions of the CAREN systems usage at the BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER. The article is on page 72,73 and 74.

Press release - Xsens integration in Motek Medical CAREN software
Amsterdam, 9 April 2009, Motek Medical integrated Xsens sensors into the hardware pallet of the CAREN software
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HBM (Human body model) News item on National Geographic Channel
TV item covers the technology and some of it's applications.Link.

HBM (Human body model) News item on Chinese National TV
Reuters News item, broadcasted on CCTV February 2009 Link.

Some new movies in the Movie section on the site
4 New movies have been uploaded to the site, showing CAREN environments during sessionsLink.

Ton Van Den Bogert from MOTEK MEDICAL recieves the Whitaker-Alard award for his work on HBM
The HBM (Human body model) real time muscle force visualization solution was presented during the 3DMA conference in The Netherlands. This presentation won the conference award for innovation. Link.

MOTEK MEDICAL Presents HBM at 3DMA in The Netherlands
October 2008 3DMA conference included a presentation and a demo of HBM showing real time visualizations of muscle forces and joint torques in the human body.
Ton Van Den Bogert from MOTEK MEDICAL presented preliminary HBM validation results done at SHEBA medical center and at the Cleveland Clinic in the USA.

MOTEK MEDICAL and VICON will demonstrate HBM at the VIRTUAL REHABILITATION CONFERENCE in CANADA
In August 25-27 2008 the VIRTUAL REHABILITATION CONFERENCE (Formerly IWVR) will take place in Vancouver Convention center. Part of the exhibition will include live demos of HBM showing real time visualizations of muscle forces and joint torques in the human body.
VICON has teamed up with MOTEK MEDICAL for this event and will also demonstrate their latest high end optical motion capture equipment.
The conference will also include presentations of works done with the CAREN system.
The Conrference program can be found at: http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/vrlab/iwvr/2008/index.html

John Moores University secures funding for a CAREN project.
Dr Gabor Barton (Senior Lecturer in Biomechanics) has secured a research grant of £103K from The WellChild Trust.
The collaborative project based in the Movement Function Research Laboratory of the Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences involves the Gait Laboratory of Alder Hey Children's Hospital, The Movement Centre in Oswestry, and MOTEK in Amsterdam.
During the 1.5 year pilot study beginning in September 2008, reactive virtual environments will be developed in order to quantify and train movement control of the pelvis and spine aiming to improve core control and gait of children with cerebral palsy.
The project will be implemented using the only Computer Assisted Rehabilitation ENvironment (CAREN) system available in the UK

CAREN Opening at MRC Doorn.
Friday the 6th of June was the date for the official opening of the CAREN extended system purchased by the Military rehabilitation center in Doorn The Netherlands. The system utilizes a cyllindrical 180 degrees projection system , an instrumented treadmill integrated in the motion base and the full CAREN control software suite. The opening also included a Demo of HBM and the V-Gait system.

V-Gait instrumented treadmill is delivered to Republic Polytechnic in Singapore.
The V-Gait system will be used at the Human Performance lab for sports biomechanics and education, sports technology, Virtual and Augmented Reality. The V-Gait system will interface with the CODA motion analysis systems at the institute.

HBM– Human Body Model was presented at the MMVR16 conference in Long Beach California.
"Medicine Meets Virtual Reality" 16th annual conference included a presentation of MOTEK Medical Human body model. See the included movie on our movies section under Publications - demos.
The slide set presented is available in the Products section.

Walter Reed Opening.
The 13th of September 2007 marks the official opening of a new CAREN Extended system
At the Walter reed Army hospital in Washington DC.  The system will be used to train US wounded warriors back to active duty.

HBM – Human Body Model Release.
HBM beta release will become available to selected testing facilities in October 2007. The Software enables real-time viewing of muscle forces in motion in the human body.  The Beta testing cycle will continue till the end of 2007.

Interest in V-Gait systems from CANADA and The Netherlands.
MOTEK Medical has received queries from Canadian and Dutch clients expressing interest in the V-Gait systems. The systems include self paced instrumented treadmills and immersive visualization systems.

CAREN User Group meeting Montreal
ISPGR Conference gave place to the CAREN user group meeting. Users presented their current projects and MOTEK Medical staff shows planned developments and answered audience questions. Following on this, several co operations were set up between facilities across the world working with comparable patient populations.