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Overview

Joan E. Sanders is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of engineering and medicine, with significant contributions in the fields of biomedical engineering, surgery, physiology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and medical laboratory technology.

Their scholarly work covers core topics related to prosthetics and rehabilitation robotics, muscle activation and electromyography studies, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, total knee arthroplasty outcomes, body composition measurement techniques, quality and safety in healthcare, as well as electrical and bioimpedance tomography.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Medical Engineering & Physics
  • Clinical Biomechanics
  • JPO Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics
  • Prosthetics and Orthotics International
  • Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering

Among their notable recent papers are:

  • Effectiveness of elevated vacuum and suction prosthetic suspension systems in managing daily residual limb fluid volume change in people with transtibial amputation (2020) published in Prosthetics and Orthotics International
  • Does actively enlarging socket volume during resting facilitate residual limb fluid volume recovery in trans-tibial prosthesis users? (2020) published in Clinical Biomechanics
  • Performance of an auto-adjusting prosthetic socket during walking with intermittent socket release (2022) published in Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering
  • Fluid Volume Management in Prosthesis Users: Augmenting Panel Release with Pin Release (2020) published in PM&R
  • Cyclic socket enlargement and reduction during walking to minimize limb fluid volume loss in transtibial prosthesis users (2022) published in Medical Engineering & Physics

Joan E. Sanders has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Katheryn J. Allyn
  • Brian G. Larsen
  • Brian J. Hafner
  • Joseph L. Garbini
  • Janna Friedly

Best Publications

  • Residual limb volume change: systematic review of measurement and management.

    Joan E. Sanders;Stefania Fatone

  • Energy storage and return prostheses: does patient perception correlate with biomechanical analysis?

    Brian J Hafner;Joan E Sanders;Joseph Czerniecki;John Fergason

  • Tissue response to single-polymer fibers of varying diameters: evaluation of fibrous encapsulation and macrophage density.

    J. E. Sanders;C. E. Stiles;C. L. Hayes

  • Skin response to mechanical stress: adaptation rather than breakdown--a review of the literature.

    Sanders Je;Goldstein Bs;Leotta Df

  • Transtibial energy-storage-and-return prosthetic devices: a review of energy concepts and a proposed nomenclature.

    Brian J. Hafner;Joan E. Sanders;Joseph M. Czerniecki;John Fergason

  • Medical devices comprising small fiber biomaterials, and methods of use

    Joan E. Sanders

  • Skin response to repetitive mechanical stress: A new experimental model in pig

    Barry Goldstein;Joan Sanders

  • Material properties of commonly-used interface materials and their static coefficients of friction with skin and socks.

    Joan E. Sanders;Joan M. Greve;Stuart B. Mitchell;Santosh G. Zachariah

  • Structures having coated indentations

    Aaron B. Baker;Joan E. Sanders

  • Normal and shear stresses on a residual limb in a prosthetic socket during ambulation: comparison of finite element results with experimental measurements.

    Sanders Je;Daly Ch

  • Changes in interface pressures and shear stresses over time on trans-tibial amputee subjects ambulating with prosthetic limbs: comparison of diurnal and six-month differences.

    J.E. Sanders;S.G. Zachariah;A.K. Jacobsen;J.R. Fergason

  • Melt electrospinning of biodegradable polyurethane scaffolds

    Ari Karchin;Felix I. Simonovsky;Buddy D. Ratner;Joan E. Sanders

  • Tissue engineering of skeletal muscle using polymer fiber arrays.

    Thomas Neumann;Stephen D. Hauschka;Joan E. Sanders

  • Tissue response to microfibers of different polymers: polyester, polyethylene, polylactic acid, and polyurethane

    J. E. Sanders;S. D. Bale;T. Neumann

  • Tissue engineering of perfused microvessels.

    Thomas Neumann;Brian S. Nicholson;Joan E. Sanders

  • Collagen fibril diameters increase and fibril densities decrease in skin subjected to repetitive compressive and shear stresses.

    J.E. Sanders;B.S. Goldstein

  • Bioengineered tissue substitutes

    Joan E. Sanders;Thomas Neumann

  • Shape and volume change in the transtibial residuum over the short term: preliminary investigation of six subjects.

    Santosh G. Zachariah;Rakesh Saxena;John R. Fergason;Joan E. Sanders

  • Interface shear stresses during ambulation with a below-knee prosthetic limb.

    Joan E. Sanders;Colin H. Daly;Ernest M. Burgess

  • Finite element estimates of interface stress in the trans-tibial prosthesis using gap elements are different from those using automated contact.

    S.G Zachariah;J.E Sanders

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas A. Neumann
Thomas A. Neumann Goddard Space Flight Center
Buddy D. Ratner
Buddy D. Ratner University of Washington
Robert J. Marks
Robert J. Marks Baylor University
Ruikang K. Wang
Ruikang K. Wang University of Washington
Pauli Puolakkainen
Pauli Puolakkainen University of Helsinki
Magnus Höök
Magnus Höök Texas A&M Health Science Center
John W. Belliveau
John W. Belliveau Harvard University
Brian Otis
Brian Otis University of Washington
Thomas N. Wight
Thomas N. Wight Virginia Mason Medical Center
Serenella Salinari
Serenella Salinari Sapienza University of Rome

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