Helping Amputees Fight Phantom-Limb Pain
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We’ve got some inspirational tech stories this week on the podcast. First up, this is a Katherine Bomkamp, a student at West Virginia University. In interviews, Ms. Bomkamp says she likes the normal student activities: hanging out with friends, going to parties, etc. But, she’s also an entrepreneur with her own company. When she was 16, she was inspired to help veterans who suffer from phantom-limb pain. Now, four years later, she’s well on her way to developing a prosthetic device that she believes can help them. It’s called the Pain Free Socket, and you can hear Bomkamp talk about it in this week’s edition of the best kept secret in podcasting, the World’s Technology Podcast.
Also, we’ve got another great inspirational item on a project called Random Hacks of Kindness, and we’ll also have an in-depth look at the Satellite Sentinel Project.
For those who prefer a bit of fear to inspiration, we’ll also take a look at the raging debate over how the rules of war apply when the war moves online.
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(Photo: Greg Ellis for WVU)
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PLEASE FORWARD THIS INFORMATION TO KATHERINE BOMKAMP–I WANT TO INTRODUCE HER TO MY OWN REMEDY
Katherine, your work is noble and worthy—I’d like to find out more about it. As a 22 year amputee with a spinal cord injury, so I deal with quite a bit of PLP–I’ve had 70 surgeries from one motorcycle accident in 1979, and I cut my leg off in 1990. I fix my PLP problems with my Night-Kap, because when I’m wearing my prosthesis, that alone limits PLP activity–Most amps agree that at night, PLP is most active and disturbing to you getting the rest you need. I have a patent and several customers who have been able to quit using mediciations—since there are NON medications specifically designed to combat PLP. PLease contact me!