TY - JOUR
T1 - Embracing additive manufacture: implications for foot and ankle orthosis design
AU - Telfer, Scott
AU - Pallari, Jari H.P.
AU - Munguia, Javier
AU - Dalgarno, Kenneth W.
AU - McGeough, Martin
AU - Woodburn, James
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The design of foot and ankle orthoses is currently limited by the methods used to fabricate the devices, particularly in terms of geometric freedom and potential to include innovative new features. Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, where objects are constructed via a series of sub-millimetre layers of a substrate material, may present the opportunity to overcome these limitations and allow novel devices to be produced that are highly personalised for the individual, both in terms of fit and functionality. Two novel devices, a foot orthosis (FO) designed to include adjustable elements to relieve pressure at the metatarsal heads, and an ankle foot orthosis (AFO) designed to have adjustable stiffness levels in the sagittal plane, were developed and fabricated using AM.
AB - The design of foot and ankle orthoses is currently limited by the methods used to fabricate the devices, particularly in terms of geometric freedom and potential to include innovative new features. Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, where objects are constructed via a series of sub-millimetre layers of a substrate material, may present the opportunity to overcome these limitations and allow novel devices to be produced that are highly personalised for the individual, both in terms of fit and functionality. Two novel devices, a foot orthosis (FO) designed to include adjustable elements to relieve pressure at the metatarsal heads, and an ankle foot orthosis (AFO) designed to have adjustable stiffness levels in the sagittal plane, were developed and fabricated using AM.
KW - additive manufacture
KW - 3D printing
KW - biomechanics
KW - ankle-foot orthoses
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U2 - 10.1186/1471-2474-13-84
DO - 10.1186/1471-2474-13-84
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84861475464
VL - 13
JO - BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
JF - BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
SN - 1471-2474
IS - 1
M1 - 84
ER -