Clemson University bioengineering and MBA alumna Riley Csernica is co-founder of Tarian Orthotics, which is marketing a shoulder stabilization brace she and other students developed for a class project. The company says the Tarian Shoulder Stabilizer is designed to be lightweight, less restrictive, and more breathable and supportive than its competitors.
“We aim to revolutionize the products available for people looking to return to high-impact activities following a shoulder injury,” Csernica said in a news release.
The Tarian Shoulder Stabilizer was developed as part of a senior design project in bioengineering under the guidance of program director John DesJardins. Four senior design team members and the collaborating clinician, Dr. Chuck Thigpen, physical therapist at Proaixs Therapy and adjunct Clemson faculty member, are credited as inventors on the pending patent application.
Csernica was part of a group associated with the senior design team that received a $50,000 NSF I-CORPS grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a business model around their shoulder injury research. The team was a finalist in a national collegiate design competition and Csernica won the Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership’s LaunchPad competition for budding entrepreneurs.
