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Alumnus and former Sparty Kris Hulliberger, left, and alumna and former drum major Mary Hulliberger pose for a portrait on Feb. 6 at the Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden.

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First comes Green, Then comes White,

Then comes Love — PAGES 4 AND 5

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“I’m playing at the highest level of high school football there is and it proved in my mind I could play at the Division I level at a power five conference school.”

Jordan Kitna, recruit whose father is NFL veteran quarterback Jon Kitna — PAGE 9 STAT ENEWS .COM

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Spartan Hackers host workshops

Every Tuesday, the group helps students learn computer science skills outside of the classroom — PAGE 2

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Computer science freshman Matt Wojno works on a code during a Spartan Hackers meeting on Feb. 9 at the Engineering Building. The club meets weekly to discuss and learn various computer science skills. PHOTO: ALICE KOLE

BY JOSH BENDER JBENDER@STATENEWS.COM

In the working world, it’s often not the skills learned in the classroom, but outside of it, that help people to be successful in their field.

For computer science students, a group known as the Spartan Hackers meets every Tuesday for workshops to learn these skills.

“The purpose of the workshops is to supplement what students learn in the classroom, which are ordinarily very coldly mathematical and logical,” Spartan Hackers vice president and computer science junior Steven Kneiser said.

The workshops allow students to flex their creative muscles and expand on what they have already learned or are learning in the classroom.

“These workshops get students actually using their hands to sit down and really make something,” Kneiser said. “School might teach you individual skills, but the workshops help you put those skills together.”

The topics covered vary widely, ranging from digital security to data visualization and beyond.

“We’re doing one on machine learning soon,” Spartan Hackers workshop chair and computer science sophomore Josh Miles said.

“Basically, it’s teaching a computer how to teach itself. For example, it can begin to recognize images like dogs or flowers without being told what they are.”

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dent-led but occasionally companies and computer science faculty members will come in to speak.

“We have a lot of companies speak to us about presenting to students on the kinds of skills they want their employees to know­­— last semester Microsoft gave a presentation,” Spartan Hackers community chair and computer science sophomore Morgan Muyskens said.

The meetings are meant to build the computer science community in addition to providing an educational opportunity. Out of that community, ideas can grow and develop.

“Innovation is another skill we try to teach, building upon the work of others is a big part of computer science,” Muyskens said.

“Our group is planning on getting together for some events where we just hang out and program, a night to bounce ideas off each other and make some friends. Spartan Innovations provides us with pizza and it’s just a good time.”

The group also actively participates in hackathon events and will be putting on its own hackathon called SpartaHack on Feb. 26.

“Hacking is usually associated with some glasses-wearing guy typing away in the dark trying to find out government secrets,” Muyskens said. “Hacking, in our sense and the ‘hackathon’ sense, is utilizing tools to create a personal project.”

Workshops are held every Tuesday at the Engineering Building, room 1345 at 7 p.m.

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“These workshops get students actually using their hands to sit down and really make something.

School might teach you individual skills, but the workshops help you put those skills together.”

Steven Kneiser, Spartan Hackers vice president

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Contents MSU issues warning about South American Zika virus, met with little concern from some international students

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Student activist strives to make a difference in the presidential election

What you need to know for the upcoming March primaries

Assistant professor dedicates time to stroke research

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60 Senior guard Bryn Forbes’ 3-point shooting percentage in the past four games.

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“One of the good things about medicine is whoever walks in the door you can take care of, and we are lucky to be able to take care of mostly athletes, especially MSU.”

Dr. Andrew Schorfhaar on treating the MSU hockey team injuries See page 8

BY IAN WENDROW IWENDROW@STATENEWS.COM

Reports of the Zika virus’ spread across Latin America have been met with urgent warnings from the World Health Organization, or WHO, and other global health institutions. Confirmed cases of Zika virus have been found in Texas, in the state of Georgia and Spain, galvanizing concern about the effects of the virus on pregnant women and driving support for further research.

For international students from Latin America, where the outbreak originated, the response has been less panicked.

“No one really cared much about it, especially since less than two years ago we had an outbreak of a similar virus called chikungunya, which is a lot more aggressive,” Dominican Republic native and international relations senior Gabriela Arias said.

While not diminishing the concern surrounding Zika, Arias feels the WHO’s warnings are somewhat over exaggerated.

“There’s worse things to worry about in the third world,” she said.

Political science and supply chain management sophomore Arturo Fordsosa, originally from Panama, shares Arias’ sense of calm.

“I’m not particularly worried,” Fordsosa said.

“The media worldwide tends to blow things significantly out of proportion. ... While having Zika is painful, deaths resulting from it are extremely rare.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, backs up that claim. Spread by a genus of mosquito known as Aedes aegypti, the CDC reported that about one in five people infected with the Zika virus will actually get sick from a Zika infection. Symptoms of a Zika infection typically include fever, rash, joint pain or pink eye.

According to the CDC website, “people usually don’t get sick enough to go to the hospital, and they very rarely die of Zika.”

Fordsosa and Arias still both acknowledge that growing up in tropical countries carries risks of mosquito-born diseases. Whereas Arias and Fordsosa feel the concern is overstated by international media, fisheries and wildlife sophomore and Puerto Rico native Waldemar Ortiz was not as quick to minimize the unique threat Zika possesses for Latin American residents.

“Personally, I am very concerned with the virus,” Ortiz said. “It is something that is basically unknown and in these moments it is crucial for the medical community to work in unison to better provide for the victims of these circumstances.”

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Love: Sparty and the drum major

BY ALEXIS SARGENT ASARGENT@STATENEWS.COM

Who is this idiot on my field?

That was the thought alumna Mary Houhanisin had when she met the love of her life.

Mary, the first female drum major for the Spartan Marching Band, was directing a rehearsal like any other day.

Kris Hulliberger, who was the Sparty mascot at the time, interrupted the rehearsal and confronted Mary.

“The feeling when both of us left was, ‘wow, what a bossy jerk,’” Kris said. “We were both there in our elements — I was there with my guys, she was there with the band.”

Despite a rocky start, Kris and Mary’s relationship would eventually lead to courtship, a proposal and marriage most Spartan couples can only dream of.

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

After their first run-in, Mary and Kris did not meet again until the Aloha Bowl of 1997.

After the football game, Mary heard commotion at the back of the marching band bus, where Sparty had taken his head off.

“From there, it was kind of like a slow movie — the lights dimmed and the spotlight fell on Kris, and I had to meet him,” Mary said.

“As cheesy as that sounds, that is exactly what happened.”

DeAnn Schwarz was Mary’s good friend and a fellow member of the Spartan Marching Band at the time.

“In Hawaii for the bowl trip, Mary and I ended up hanging out with Kris quite a bit,” Schwarz said. “They seemed to have a connection.”

Sparty ended up visiting with Mary and the Spartan Marching Band for the remainder of the trip.

Alumnus Kris Hulliberger, left, and alumna Mary Hulliberger pose for a picture after their wedding on June 10, 2000 at the 4-H Children’s Garden. Kris proposed to Mary with the stone pictured. PHOTO COURTESY OF MARY AND KRIS HULLIBERGER

“After that, we were kind of inseparable,” Kris said. “Back at MSU, we started hanging out, and would you believe it, nine months later we were engaged. And then a year and a half later, we got married.”

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Back in East Lansing, Kris and Mary spent most of their free time with each other.

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the time Kris and Mary were dating.

“Mary really liked Kris and she thought she saw something special with him,” Schwarz said.

“I think they were meant to be.”

Sparty soon became a regular at Spartan Marching Band rehearsals.

Kris and Mary often had lunch together at the Union and walked around campus together, particularly through the Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden.

Because of Mary and Kris’ positions, they were able to travel to many MSU events.

The couple traveled to the basketball Big Ten Tournament in Chicago, ESPN headquarters, and the first and second rounds of NCAA Tournaments.

“Dating someone in that environment is pretty wonderful,” Kris said. “You’re getting a trip and you get to go somewhere.

Getting to do that with your girlfriend, and then doing it with someone that you would share the rest of your life with, is even more wonderful.”

Once they started dating, Mary signed up to be a Sparty escort with the MSU Student Alumni Foundation. Sparty escorts travel with Sparty to help him with events.

For the next summer, the pair traveled across lower Michigan for a multitude of Sparty events.

“We have had some wonderful adventures being a part of Michigan State University,” Mary said. “If there were ever two people who enjoyed every single moment of being there, it was the two of us. It was just so much fun.”

ENGAGEMENT

In the fall of 1998, Kris purchased a brick at the Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden, a place Kris and Mary would often visit during their class breaks.

When the brick came in on a Saturday morning, Kris told Mary that Sparty had an event at the garden.

Kris brought Mary to the pavilion area of the garden. A bouquet of roses lay on top of the brick, which read, “Mary, Will You Marry Me? Love Kris.”

She said yes.

The special moment was photographed by Kris’ friend and fellow Sparty mascot, Regis Buckley.

“It was a special moment,” Buckley said. “Of course, it was a surprise for Mary.

“From there, it was kind of like a slow movie — the lights dimmed and the spotlight fell on Kris, and I had to meet him.”

- MARY HULLBERGER, FIRST FEMALE DRUM MAJOR

“These are going to be pictures that you’re going to take that will last forever, for future grandkids and down the road. With the brick, it was one of those things that will live through the end of time.”

On June 10, 2000, MSU’s first female drum major and Sparty were officially married.

Mary and Kris held their wedding at a small Lutheran church in Lansing. The wedding included a custom-made drum major and Sparty cake topper.

In addition to being their engagement photographer, Buckley was also the best man in Kris and Mary’s wedding.

“They’re truly in love,” Buckley said. “Kris and Mary are such great people, and it was great to be able to share such a special moment with them.”

The wedding reception fittingly took place on MSU’s campus at the Kellogg Center’s Big Ten Room.

And of course, Sparty himself was in attendance.

The wedding party visited several MSU attractions, including their engagement brick and the Sparty statue.

“There is a great picture of all of us on top of Sparty,” Mary said. “Kris picked me up in my dress and we were standing on Sparty together. That was a lot of fun.”

A FAMILY BLEEDING GREEN AND WHITE

Fast forward 15 years, and Kris and Mary are now the HulFrom left to right, Hannah Hulliberger, 9, alumnus Kris Hulliberger, alumna Mary Hulliberger and Kyle Hulliberger, 6, pose for a portrait on Feb. 6, 2016 at the Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden.

liberger family.

The couple has a 9-year-old daughter named Hannah and a 6-year-old son named Kyle, who they are forging into young Spartan fans.

“Our kids are growing up in a Spartan environment and they enjoy going to the games and being a part of our team,” Mary said. “One of the first songs they could both sing when they were little was the Michigan State fight song.”

The Hulliberger youngsters, not surprisingly, also have an affinity for the Spartan Marching Band. Mary and Kris take an annual trip to see the band for their preseason show and at Adams Field before kickoff.

Hannah has aspirations of being the drum major and Kyle wishes to be Sparty one day, their parents said.

“They very much bleed green and white already,” Mary said.

“I don’t know what we would do if they decided to go to the other school.”

Hannah and Kyle love being a part of the MSU atmosphere on campus.

They take great pride in knowing their father was Sparty and their mother was the first female drum major, they said.

These smaller Hullibergers have inherited Kris and Mary’s love for MSU. They love telling the “My dad was Sparty, my mom was the first female drum major” story as much as their parents do.

“It’s cool because I go to school and we’re talking about, ‘do you like Michigan or State?’ and I get wrapped up into the whole Sparty and drum major story,” Hannah said. “It’s my favorite story to tell.”

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Orthopedic surgeon and team physician for MSU hockey Dr. Andrew Schorfhaar poses for a portrait on Jan. 21 at the MSU Sports Medicine facility. PHOTO: EMILY ELCONIN

BY NATHANIEL BOTT NBOTT@STATENEWS.COM

This is part four in a series of six stories profiling the MSU Sports Medicine faculty.

The risk of lacerations from skates and falling onto the ice at high speeds makes hockey one of the most susceptible sports to a high rate of injury.

But for MSU’s hockey program, the healing process for players is in good hands with Dr. Andrew Schorfhaar of the MSU Sports Medicine team.

“(Schorfhaar is) very approachable, and that’s very important from an athletic trainer’s point of view­— being able to talk to your doctors and reach them seven days a week.”

Dave Carrier MSU hockey’s trainer

Schorfhaar is entering his ninth year with MSU Sports Medicine. He received his medical school degree from MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine and before that he completed his undergraduate degree at Western Michigan University. While attending Western Michigan, Schorfhaar made an important contact in Dr. Jeffrey Kovan, who has evolved from a football trainer for Western Michigan to the director of MSU’s entire sports medicine program.

“Once I came through medical school and did my residency in the Detroit area, I went to Minnesota to do my sports fellowship working with all the professional teams in Minnesota: the Timberwolves, Twins, Vikings and Wild,” Schorfhaar said. “So I just called him (Kovan) on my way out to do that, to let him know where I was at in my career.

He said, ‘Before you accept an offer anywhere let me talk to you,’ so I did, and they asked me to come back, so I did.”

Schorfhaar, the team physician for MSU hockey, as well as the team physician for MSU swimming, Lansing Catholic Central High School and the Lansing Lugnuts, works closely with MSU’s hockey trainer, Dave Carrier. Carrier, in his 32nd season with MSU hockey, appreciates Schorfhaar’s cooperation with the team.

“What we like about (Schorfhaar) is he has very good surgical skills, very up-to-date surgical skills,” Carrier said.

“Very approachable, and that’s very important from an athletic trainer’s point of view — being able to talk to your

doctors and reach them seven days a week.”

Alongside Carrier is Dr. Robert Norris, who shares an office with Schorfhaar at the MSU Sports Medicine facility. Norris is the primary care doctor for MSU hockey and sits on the bench for games. In his 16th year at MSU Sports Medicine, Norris also has a strong working relationship with Schorfhaar.

“I’ve really enjoyed having Andrew come help and be involved, and from the orthopedic perspective, he does a very nice job augmenting what we can’t do when surgery needs to be done,” Norris said. “He has a good relationship with the boys as well. He’s not necessarily there on a dayto-day basis, but from a standpoint of when he is needed he has always been willing to come in off hours to help out.”

After a residency in Minnesota working for all four professional teams in Minneapolis, there is not much the man hasn’t encountered. Schorfhaar explained the unpredictability of medicine, while recounting his most intense surgical memory.

“We see all kinds of interesting stuff, and sometimes it’s pretty straightforward, sometimes it’s pretty gruesome,” Schorfhaar said. “I had someone who was dying of flesh-eating bacteria and I had to cut off their arm, but they lived, so it’s not often you see working in sports someone like that.

We see a lot of stuff — there’s not much you can throw at us that we haven’t seen before.”

That gruesome example of the complex cases Schorfhaar handled is just one of many. These MSU surgeons see patients of all types across Michigan. It doesn’t bother Schorfhaar — that’s why he went into medicine in the first place.

“One of the good things about medicine is whoever walks in the door you can take care of,” Schorfhaar said. “And we are lucky to be able to take care of mostly athletes, especially MSU, but we all cover high schools and people from up north and different areas. You take care of a couple people and they start sending people down to you. I think we have a broad reach around the state to bring people into our clinic and that’s what is fun about it.”

Schorfhaar does have a lighter side. Both Carrier and Norris testified to golfing in the summertime with Schorfhaar.

However, because both Carrier and Norris have seen what he can do with a knife in the operating room, they declined to comment on his short range game. Good golfer or not, Schorfhaar enjoys the time he spends with his colleagues and attributes this chemistry to the department’s success.

“Working with Dave and with Bob has been the best part of that, and the hockey players are a lot of fun to deal with,” Schorfhaar said. “But the collaboration I have with Dave and Bob is the best part of doing that.”

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Jordan Kitna, son of 16-year NFL veteran QB, will walk on at MSU

BY RYAN SQUANDA RSQUANDA@STATENEWS.COM

It’s been an interesting few years in the recruitment process for Jordan Kitna, son of former 16-year NFL veteran quarterback Jon Kitna.

But on national signing day on Feb. 3, it all came to an end, as the senior quarterback from Waxahachie, Texas chose to go the preferred walk-on route at MSU. Jordan Kitna didn’t receive a ton of recruiting attention in high school. Even after a junior year of throwing for 3,722 yards and 55 touchdowns and leading his team to an 11-1 record at Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Wash. — where his father was the head football coach and a part-time math teacher — colleges were too fixated on size.

“I’d really love to earn a scholarship. That’s one of my goals. ... It’s going to be a long road and it’s going to be a lot of hard work but I’m up to it.”

Jordan Kitna, Fall 2016 MSU walk-on quarterback

By the end of his junior season, Kitna stood just 6 feet tall, weighed about 200 pounds and had yet to receive a Division I offer.

In January 2015, Jon Kitna accepted an offer to be the head coach at Waxahachie High School in Texas, meaning the Kitna family would move to Texas for Jordan’s senior year.

The following fall, Kitna fought through injury to throw for 2,100 yards and 21 touchdowns in seven games, helping Waxahachie High School to a 6-4 record. Parts of the move were tough, he’ll admit, but by playing in the football-crazed state of Texas, Jordan Kitna was able to prove to himself and college coaches that he could play at a high level.

“It’s definitely been a benefit more than a burden,” Jordan Kitna said. “The recruiting is way better down here than up there and it’s a bigger spotlight down here. … I’m playing at the highest level of high school football there is and it proved in my mind I could play at the Division I level at a Power Five conference school.”

Still, even though his recruitment began to pick up his senior year, besides a lone Division I offer

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from Connecticut, the offers didn’t come.

“They just kind of felt he was caught in this weird environment of where he was at developmentally,” Jon Kitna said. “He’s a late bloomer, just like I was. … Also, moving from Washington, he got kind of caught in a recruiting no man’s land.”

Jon Kitna said while there were a lot of schools recruiting his son, in watching tapes of Jordan, a lot of the smaller schools told Jon they’d love to have him, but told the Kitnas he was a Power Five quarterback, and didn’t want to waste their time recruiting him.

This only further confirmed to the Kitnas that Jordan belonged at a big-time school.

At some point in the recruiting process, Jordan Kitna came into contact with the coaching staff at MSU, and credits the relationships he was able to build with those coaches to why he chose to walk on at MSU, even though they didn’t have a scholarship available for him.

“I really love the coaches and the players and the environment there,” Jordan Kitna said. “It’s like a family environment where they’re more concerned about the player and how he develops as a person than the progress on the field. I think that kind of helps mentally, when the players and coaches care about each other. They want to have a relationship with the players throughout their whole life.

That’s part of their philosophy and that’s something that’s important to me.”

Jordan Kitna’s story as an underrated and unheralded recruit is a familiar one for his family. His father was a seldom heard of recruit in the early 1990s and eventually played college football for Central Washington University, an NAIA school in Ellensburg, Wash.

After going undrafted in the 1996 NFL Draft and spending a season with the Barcelona Dragons in NFL Europe, Jon Kitna went on to a 16-year NFL career with the Seattle Seahawks, Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys.

It’s because of his own journey Jon Kitna reiterates to his son that everyone’s path is different. Jon Kitna also said there is a part of him that wishes he would have taken a shot at walking on at a larger program out of college, and he is happy his son is taking that shot.

“God’s got a specific journey and path for him, and his job is to be obedient in the path,” Jon Kitna said. “My journey is rare, obviously, and the one thing that we kept coming back to with him

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In the meantime, Jordan Kitna is looking forward to charting his own path in college.

“Whether that’s being on the scout team or starting at MSU or whatever, I just want to be able to help the team,” Jordan Kitna said. “Whatever my

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More to know about the upcoming elections The primary elections indicate who will be appointed the delegates of the Democrat and Republican parties for the upcoming presidential election.

Michigan’s primary election will take place on March 8.

The polls will open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m.

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Make sure you are eligible to vote in the United States.

The deadline to register for the primary elections has passed. However, to vote in the presidential election, you must fill out your registration application at least 30 days before election day.

Make sure you write in the same address as is on your driver’s license.

Be sure to bring a photo ID with you. A driver’s license or passport are both acceptable forms of identification.

You will also need your voter registration card. This tells you where your precinct, or polling location, is. You can also visit michigan.gov/vote to find your polling location.

Students are also eligible to request an absentee ballot if they are not able to travel back to the town in which they are registered to vote. A request form can also be found on the michigan.gov website.

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BY RILEY MURDOCK RMURDOCK@STATENEWS.COM

When they found out presidential candidate Donald Trump would be holding a rally in Grand Rapids on Dec. 21, social relations and policy junior Daniel Eggerding and political science freshman James Commee knew they were going.

“I would say (my activism) means something to me, but the great thing about it is that it’s something bigger than me.”

Daniel Eggerding, MSU College Democrats communications director

What the pair didn’t know was when they jokingly talked about disrupting the event, they actually would do just that.

The pair arrived at the rally as soon as doors opened and stood near the front, surrounded on all sides by Trump supporters. Hours ticked by while they awaited the candidate’s arrival.

Eggerding and Commee had both attended political rallies before, and both said they felt an air among the crowd that disturbed them.

“There was so much anger and pain in the room,” Eggerding said. “You could

tell that everyone was really upset, and there was so much tension, it honestly felt like a TV show.”

A short while after Trump began speaking, the two decided they’d heard enough. Eggerding got up on Commee’s shoulders and began screaming at the top of his lungs, “Donald Trump, you are racist. You are a bigot. You don’t represent me.”

Upon realizing what just happened, the crowd grew into an uproar. Commee said they were screaming, yelling, punching and kicking as Eggerding was escorted out by secret service.

They said Trump smiled, dismissively waving toward the doors as Eggerding was removed, his repeated shouts of “you don’t represent America” slowly drowned out by thousands chanting “USA, USA” with fervor.

“Bye bye,” Trump said.

The incident made local news, with broadcast video of the rally capturing the protest. Eggerding took a cellphone video of the demonstration, which has been viewed just less than 40,000 times on his Facebook page.

“I don’t believe that type of rhetoric that he stands for is what America truly is,” Eggerding said. “I believe that a nation of immigrants, a nation of all types of diversity, makes America great.

America already is great, let’s make it even greater.”

The Trump rally is only the tip of the iceberg as far as political activism for

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MSU professor aims to help rehabilitation of stroke patients

Kinesiology senior Julie Pieciaki awaits testing inside the biomechanics lab on Feb. 4, 2016 at IM Sports-Circle. The lab uses technology to understand motor development. PHOTO: EMILY ELCONIN

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While assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology Rajiv Ranganathan was attending University of Madras in India, his grandfather suffered a stroke, leaving him debilitated.

After seeing the struggle of his grandfather’s rehabilitation, Ranganathan dedicated himself to finding better ways of helping to rehabilitate stroke victims.

Now Ranganathan uses modern forms of technology, such as motion capture cameras, to collect data for analysis. With collecting this data, he hopes doctors can see a more in-depth prognosis of the debilitating effects of a stroke, and will be able to better assess a rehabilitation program.

With how technology has evolved through the past 20 years, it can be used to better understand people’s motor behavior, Ranganathan said.

“Now the time has come where we don’t have to say range of motion is on a scale of one to five, we can say range of motion is 120 degrees,” Ranganathan said. “That gives us a much better way of tracking progress.”

Using an eight motion capture system, participants’ three-dimensional movements can be recorded and analyzed for real-time feedback.

“With the help of the computer system, we can build a virtual environment and it will let us learn more about human movement,” doctoral student Tzu-Hsiang Lin said.

A simple experiment used by Ranganathan involves a box filled with blocks. In one minute, participants have to transfer blocks on one side of the box, over a partition, and into the other side and the total number is recorded.

While performing this, motion capture can map out upper body joint functions, and force plates in the floor can measure posture control.

If participants have limited arm movements and need to use their core or other forms of compensation, that data can be recorded.

“Now is the era of data, so with these kinds of devices, we can collect multiple joints at the same time,” Lin said.

This collection of quantitative data will provide doctors a way to track patient progress.

Since doctors only see patients ever so often, using technology to mark patient progress will help doctors better understand how effective their treatment is, an idea that 10 to 15 years ago might have not been feasible, Ranganathan said.

Another use of technology Ranganathan uses in the lab is a bimanual robot combined with a virtual reality system.

Using this, a spring-like force can be applied to help determine the amount of force being used.

“I think independence is huge for everyone.

No one wants to be dependent on anyone,” kinesiology senior and lab assistant Julie Pieciak said. “If I can help someone reach the baseline where they were before or better, that is something I would like to do.”

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