A low cost and effective foot orthotics fabrication framework

低成本且有效的足部矫形器制造框架

• 批准号: 10251746
• 负责人: Steven Yi
• 金额: $ 29.99万
• 依托单位: XYKEN, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-06-01 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10251746
• 关键词: 3-Dimensional; 3D Print; Academy; Address; Adopted; Adult; Age; Algorithms; American; Ankle; Biomechanics; Bypass; Car Phone; Caring; Cellular Phone; Chronic; Clinical; Collaborations; Computer software; Consumption; Custom; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Diabetic Foot; Diabetic Foot Ulcer; Disease; Elderly; Elements; Evaluation; Finite Element Analysis; Foot Ulcer; Generations; Goals; Hand; Heel; Image; Income; Industry; Laboratories; Light; Location; Manufacturer Name; Medial; Medicine; Methods; Modeling; Motion; Orthotic Devices; Pain; Pathology; Patients; Phase; Podiatry; Population; Population Group; Positioning Attribute; Posture; Prevention; Process; Production; Recurrence; Refit; Scanning; Schools; Shapes; Shoes; Site; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Spottings; Stress; Structure; Surface; System; Systems Development; Testing; Three-Dimensional Imaging; Time; Treatment Cost; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Weight-Bearing state; aging population; base; biomechanical model; compare effectiveness; cost; data acquisition; design; diabetic ulcer; digital models; disorder later incidence prevention; experience; foot; handheld mobile device; impression; improved; mobile computing; pressure; prevent; programs; prototype; reconstruction; simulation; smartphone Application; tool

Project Summary: We propose in this SBIR effort to develop a direct 3D mobile imaging based foot orthotics optimization system for clinicians to treat and prevent chronic conditions such as diabetic ulceration and malalignment. The proposed system leaps beyond the traditional orthotics production process, as it allows clinicians to directly and conveniently acquire patients' 3D foot structure from any needed postures (either weight bearing, non-bearing, or partial weight bearing), provides comprehensive details on patients' foot biomechanics, and optimizes orthotics design through finite element analysis. The proposed system also allows localized testing and refitting through a 3D printer, facilitating comfort orthotics design and thus improving the compliance issue faced today. The proposed solution will have the following impact and significance: facilitate effective prevention of the recurrence of diabetic foot ulcers; better foot orthotics customization experience; more comfort fit leading to better compliance; and lower treatment cost. Diabetic foot complications are common and costly problem. Approximately 30.3 million Americans, 9.4 percent of the U.S. population have diabetes, according to the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists. In adults over age 60, about 1 in 4 have diabetes. With the aging population, this group is expected to grow at least 7% per year for the next 10 years. Custom foot orthotics are commonly used to treat and prevent the recurrence of foot diabetics. Undoubtedly, the development of a low cost and ubiquitous mobile platform based foot orthotics optimization and rapid prototyping method will have significant impact on the elderlies especially for the low and middle income sufferers.

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