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It was a cousin’s lacrosse injury that inspired Alyssa Mulry to dream up ConnectKnee, a brace that tracks a patient’s recovery time. Mulry’s cousin dislocated her patella during a soccer game, requiring long recovery. Then a friend and family members also suffered knee injuries.
“I saw first-hand how limited and discouraging recovery for a knee injury was,” says Mulry, a senior biomedical engineering major from Rutland, Massachusetts. “One thing stayed the same: a slow and often discouraging recovery. Then the idea really just took off after that.” 
ConnectKnee topped a field of 17 entries in the seventh-annual DifferenceMaker Francis College of Engineering Prototyping Competition. The top three teams, and a crowd favorite, won cash prizes. Overall, five teams were selected from the preliminaries in November to present their pitches to a panel of judges.  ....

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