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Featured Technology

Fay Horak, PhD

Fay Horak, PhD

BESTest (Balance Evaluation Systems Test)

Current clinical balance assessment tools do not determine the underlying constraints on a balance disorder. The BESTest is a new clinical balance assessment tool that is unique in allowing clinicians to determine the type of balance problems in patients. The BESTest combines both original tasks and tasks/items taken from the literature to create a systematic, theoretical framework for identifying the underlying constraints of a balance disorder. Order the BESTest and associated components.

News & Announcements

February 27, 2009           
Bioscience Innovation Program Awards Three Investigators


The OHSU Bioscience Innovation Program (BSIP) announced awards to three investigators in 2009. The BSIP awards fill a critical gap in the funding of technologies that do not qualify for traditional federal funding, yet are deemed too early for corporate partnership.

      
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