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，开发下一代柔性和保护性身体防护。在Scaled，我们将个性化可穿戴设备的设计自动化，以应对我们多样化和活跃的社会带来的延长健康寿命的挑战。目前最先进的防护性可穿戴设备是标准尺寸，并以普通欧洲男性为模型。对于大多数人来说，现有的身体保护器僵硬、笨重且不舒服。活动受限的程度比需要的更大，广泛使用会导致肌肉质量下降。不适和不必要的行动限制鼓励患者提前拆除可穿戴设备，冒着进一步受伤或延长恢复时间的风险。此外，现有的可穿戴设备缺乏任何定制。患有重复劳损(RSI)等慢性疾病的用户正在使用与寻求防止关节磨损的专业运动员相同的矫形器。SCALED是世界上第一个保护性和柔性材料创新，在提供有针对性的保护程度的同时允许最大限度的移动性。Scaled以自然为灵感的专利技术是一种形成连锁鳞片的外骨骼材料。我们的算法使用客户数据，在计算设计和3D打印的帮助下，创建了独特的缩放材料。由此产生的“鳞片式”结构提供了完全符合用户群体要求的程度和程度的保护，同时在所有其他方向提供了最大的移动性，从而解决了不适合、刚性穿戴的问题。缩放材料在三个方面具有创新性：1.首先，缩放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。其次，Scaled是可大规模定制的，以满足每个用户组的个性化需求。第三，Scaled是一种附加材料，用于改进体育、医疗矫形器和安全生产行业现有的防护可穿戴设备。Innovate UK的快速启动：创新拨款用于成功地与体育和医疗部门的用户群体进行5项试点研究。我们这个项目的重点是改善因生活方式疾病(如RSI)而患有慢性手腕疾病的患者的生活质量、自我管理和独立生活。

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.