Pilot Case Studies for 'SCALED' wrist guards

SCALED（tm）是一家总部位于伦敦的材料技术公司，致力于开发下一代柔性和防护性身体防护产品。在SCALED，我们实现了个性化可穿戴设备的自动化设计，以应对多元化和活跃的社会所带来的长寿健康生活的挑战。目前最先进的防护性可穿戴设备是标准尺寸，以欧洲普通男性为模型。对于大多数人来说，现有的身体保护器是刚性的、笨重的和不舒服的。活动性被限制到比需要更大的程度，并且广泛使用导致肌肉质量减少。不舒适和不必要的运动限制促使患者在建议的时间之前移除可穿戴设备，这可能会导致进一步受伤或延长恢复时间。此外，现有的可穿戴设备缺乏任何定制。患有重复性劳损（RSI）等慢性疾病的使用者使用与专业运动员相同的矫形器来防止关节磨损。SCALED是世界上第一个保护性和柔性材料创新，提供有针对性的保护程度，同时允许最大的移动性。SCALED的自然灵感的专利技术是一种外骨骼材料形成联锁规模。我们的算法使用客户数据，在计算设计和3D打印的帮助下，创建独特的SCALED材料。由此产生的“鳞片状”结构可以在用户群体需要的程度和范围内提供精确的保护，同时在所有其他方向上提供最大的移动性，从而解决了不合适的刚性可穿戴设备的问题。SCALED材料在三个方面具有创新性：1.首先，SCALED可穿戴设备提供有针对性的支持，同时允许最大的移动性和灵活性。2.其次，SCALED是大规模定制，以满足每个用户群体的个性化需求。第三，SCALED是一种附加材料，用于改进运动、医疗矫形和工作安全行业现有的防护性可穿戴设备。创新英国“快速启动：创新”赠款用于成功地与运动和医疗行业的用户群体进行5项试点研究。我们对这个项目的重点是改善生活质量，自我管理和独立生活的患者患有慢性手腕条件，由于生活方式疾病，如RSI。

SCALED(tm) is a London based, material technology company developing the next generation of flexible and protective body protection. At SCALED, we automize the design of personalised wearables to address the challenge of enabling long, healthy lives posed by our diverse and active societies.Current state-of-the-art protective wearables are standard-sized and modelled on the average European male. For most people, existing body protectors are rigid, bulky and uncomfortable. Mobility is restricted to a larger extent than needed and extensive use leads to a decrease of muscle mass. Discomfort and unnecessary restriction of movement encourages patients to remove the wearable earlier than advised, risking further injury or prolonged recovery time. Additionally, existing wearables lack any customization. Users suffering from a chronic disease such as Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) are using the same orthotics as the professional athlete who seeks to prevent joint abrasion.SCALED is the world's first protective and flexible material innovation that offers a targeted degree of protection while allowing maximum mobility. SCALED's nature-inspired patented technology is an exoskeleton material formed into interlocking scales. Our algorithm uses customer data which, with the help of computational design and 3D printing, creates the unique SCALED material. The resulting 'scale-like' structure offers protection exactly at the degree and to the extent that the user group requires, whilst offering maximum mobility in all other directions, thus solving the problem of ill-fitting, rigid wearables.The SCALED material is innovative in three regards:1. Firstly, SCALED wearables offer targeted support while allowing maximum mobility and flexibility.2. Secondly, SCALED is mass-customizable to meet each user groups' individual needs.3. Thirdly, SCALED is an add-on material, used to improve existing protective wearables in the sports, medical orthotics and work-safety industry.The Innovate UK 'Fast Start: Innovation' grant is used to successfully deliver 5 pilot studies with user groups in the sports and medical sector. Our focus for this project is to improve life quality, self-management and independent living for patients suffering from chronic wrist conditions due to lifestyle diseases such as RSI.