Description

Linda Lancere is a Latvian researcher, who consults on rehabilitation technology development. 

In 2019 Linda attended BAFF’s Research Scholarship Program in University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, working on her postdoctoral research project, with the title:  Whole-body rehabilitation for lower extremity amputees by means of extended reality and advanced wearables. 

Her BAFF project was an essential component of a 3-year postdoctoral research aimed to increase the quality of life following lower extremity amputation, expedite rehabilitation reintegration process, decrease unemployment due to physical restrictions by means of technological advances and medical know-how. 

In the podcast, we talk about:  

• Can you become a researcher after switching fields multiple times?
• How could the feedback from deep muscles help with physical therapy and exercising?
• Volunteering mindset in the US?
• Different developments in the field of virtual and mixed reality today?
• Ways that researchers and business people can find a common vocabulary?

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Learn more about the scholarship opportunities provided by the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation to help Baltic Scientists fund their research in the United States: www.balticamericanfreedomfoundation.org