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Inspired to make change? One day it could be you. Recruitment is now open for our 2022/23 PULSE Racing team, running until the 18th of May. Every year, we are looking for passionate students to represent PULSE Racing. PULSE Racing is the first dream team from the VU Amsterdam. The aim is to improve the vitality and mobility of people with spinal cord injuries. To accomplish this we use functional electrostimulation in order to let Read more…

Last month, PULSE Racing attended the Brothers and Sisters Day of the Vereniging in Beweging (V.I.B.). Members of the Vereniging in Beweging (V.I.B.) invited their brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces to visit the VU Amsterdam. PULSE Racing organized a workshop at the Brothers and Sisters Day. This event started with a nice presentation that was given by the Operations Department. The topic was about what a spinal cord injury entails. Besides, it was explained how Read more…

Last month, Remco Rozendaal announced that he is going to train from home instead of training at the VU Amsterdam. Remco has been one of the PULSE Racing athletes since 2021. His training schedule consisted of training sessions of one and a half hours, three times a week. Remco’s main goal was to improve the muscle power in his legs. And he definitely succeeded! From now on, Remco will solely train from home, whereby PULSE Read more…

Last month, PULSE Racing has been working for the first time with spatially distributed sequential stimulation (SDSS) during training sessions. Because the name spatially distributed sequential stimulation is quite a mouthful, it was soon replaced by Splitter. Much easier. Besides, the name splitter gives a good idea of what this new technique entails. Instead of one electrode, the Splitter consists of four electrodes and one reference electrode that can be attached to a muscle. See Read more…