Green Sun Medical wins $50,000 for research on dynamic scoliosis brace

FORT COLLINS — Green Sun Medical, an Innosphere company that is making a new kind of scoliosis brace, won a $50,000 grant during a Food and Drug Administration-sponsored Pediatric Device Innovation Symposium.

The funds will go to a pilot study in the spring, where 30 patients will be monitored using Green Sun’s brace.

The issue with scoliosis braces, CEO Jamie Haggard told BizWest, is that they haven’t changed in 40 years.

“The brace we use now was invented at the same time as the rotary phone,” he said.

Rather than…