$1.8 million NIH grant funds IU researcher’s work on mobile compression device

An Indiana University School of Medicine faculty member is partnering with an Indiana medical technology company to test the effectiveness of a mobile compression device in preventing deep vein thrombosis—a risky post-surgery side effect of a knee replacement.

Jason Watters, MD, a professor in the IU School of Medicine Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, was one of two physicians chosen to participate in the study, which clinically tests the lightweight, quiet and wireless equipment developed by the Fishers-based Recovery Force, LLC.

Recovery Force’s Movement And Compressions (previously known as Mobile Active Compressions) calf device has been in development since the company was founded five years ago. Now, a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will cover the cost of testing the device on some 300 patients in Indianapolis and Boston over the next two years.