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THE MAGIC GLOVE


PERFECT FIT


Muthu Wijesundara, Ph.D., is fitted with the ReHeal Glove during a laboratory session at the University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute (UTARI). (Photo courtesy of the UTARI)


the ReHeal Glove may have withered on the vine. Instead, it provides a promising medical option for millions.


A FLEXIBLE ARRANGEMENT What makes the ReHeal Glove so unique—the reason it caught the eye of the MTEC team in the first place—is the (literal) flexibility it offers. Patients are able to move their fingers during treatment, a feature that Allan and Wijesundara say reduces the scarring that often results from current rehabilitation techniques that require near-complete immobilization of the hand. Further, the foam dressing


42 Army AL&T Magazine Summer 2022


used in standard negative wound-pres- sure therapy treatments—which renders the hand immobile under a vacuum—is eliminated in the glove; replaced instead by clear, flexible, textured silicone, permit- ting easy application and removal, wound assessment and full range of motion.


For both men, such forward think- ing demanded a partner that was on the same page.


“Getting funding for this kind of cutting- edge work is not easy, but MTEC knows this area extremely well,” said Wijesundara,


who officially heads the Biomedical Tech- nology Division at UTARI, in reference to the ReHeal Glove’s development process. “Not only does MTEC serve an impor- tant role, but they understand the needs for prototype-to-product transition that nobody else wants to fund.”


Tat explanation of the overall value of MTEC is probably as succinct as it gets; an organization dedicated to fostering collab- orations that, in the end, result in moving projects forward. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity, MTEC consists of more than 540 industry and academic organizations


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