Improving the health status of dysvascular amputees by deploying digital prosthetic interface technology in combination with exercise intervention

项目总结/摘要 血管障碍性截肢者患危及生命的心血管疾病的风险很大。而 运动已被证明可以降低这种风险，通常情况下，血管障碍的截肢者无法进行身体锻炼。 活动由于压力损伤和疼痛所产生的不良假肢接受腔配合。这个小企业 创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目提出部署计算衍生的经胫骨 假肢接口技术，以促进坚持远程保健锻炼干预的人， 血管性截肢假肢接口是使用计算框架数字化生成的 专注于创造一个内衬和插座定量来自生物物理模型的截肢 残余物此前在麻省理工学院开发并在仿生皮肤产品化，这种数据驱动的设计和 制造框架基于明确的科学原理，通过以下方式最大限度地提高舒适度并避免组织损伤： 减小渣油和界面之间的高接触压力区域。 拟议的SBIR第二阶段活动分为四个具体目标。在目标1中，血管障碍受试者 将招募经胫骨单侧截肢者，并平均分成两组。第2组数据 将使用计算机断层扫描（CT）收集，并从以下数据中导出详细的生物力学模型： 每次扫描都用于计算框架。在目标2中，将结合有限元分析（FEA） 通过测试接受腔评估，优化并为组中的所有受试者制造最终内衬和接受腔 2.使用数字化设计到数字化制造管道。在目标3中，所有患者的初始生物力学评估 两个队列的套接字接口（数字设计和传统）将使用套接字内 界面压力测量，残余物的热成像测量，插座评估 问卷调查和修复师组织评估。在目标4中，将进行随机（优效性）临床试验 旨在比较12个月内血管障碍单侧经胫骨的临床结局 截肢者在使用仿生皮肤的数字假肢时， 接口技术与使用传统（手工）技术制造的插座。的 目标3中概述的评估将在12个月内定期进行， 数据将报告两组之间的显著差异。 该项目的长期商业目标是提供证据，证明仿生皮肤的计算能力 个性化假体界面在舒适性、适合性和良好的维护性方面上级传统界面， 组织健康，因此是一个可行的选择，包括在各种运动相关的干预措施， 膝下截肢，或作为日常假肢接口选项。

Project Summary/Abstract Persons with dysvascular amputations are at great risk for life-threatening cardiovascular disease. While exercise has been shown to reduce this risk, often times dysvascular amputees are unable to perform physical activity due to pressure lesions and sores generated by poor prosthetic socket fit. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase-II project proposes the deployment of a computationally derived transtibial prosthetic interface technology to promote adherence to a tele-health exercise intervention for persons with dysvascular amputation. The prosthetic interface is digitally generated using a computational framework focused on the creation of a liner and socket quantitatively derived from a biophysical model of the amputated residuum. Previously developed at MIT and productized at Bionic Skins, this data-driven design and manufacturing framework is based on a clear scientific rationale to maximize comfort and avoid tissue injury by diminishing areas of high contact pressure between the residuum and interface. The proposed SBIR Phase-II activities are sorted into four specific aims. In Aim 1, subjects with dysvascular transtibial unilateral amputations will be recruited and be separated evenly into two groups. Data on Group 2 will be collected using Computed Tomography (CT) and detailed biomechanical models will be derived from each scan for use in the computational framework. In Aim 2, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) will be combined with test socket evaluations to optimize and then fabricate a definitive liner and socket for all subjects in Group 2 using the Digital Design to Digital Manufacturing pipeline. In Aim 3, initial biomechanical assessments of all socket interfaces (digitally designed and conventional) for both cohorts will be performed using intra-socket interface pressure measurements, thermal imaging measurements of the residuum, a socket evaluation questionnaire, and prosthetist tissue evaluation. In Aim 4 a randomized (superiority) clinical trial will be conducted to compare clinical outcomes over a period of 12 months in dysvascular unilateral transtibial amputees participating in an exercise-based intervention program when using Bionic Skins’ digital prosthetic interface technology vs. a socket that is manufactured using a traditional (artisanal) technique. The assessments outlined in Aim 3 will be performed periodically over the twelve months to gather longitudinal data. Significant differences between the two groups will be reported. The long-term commercial goal of the project is to generate evidence that Bionic Skins’ computationally personalized prosthetic interface is superior to conventional interfaces in comfort, fit, and maintenance of good tissue health and thus a viable option to include in various exercise-related interventions for persons with below-knee amputations, or as an everyday prosthetic interface option.