Aesthetics in Orthopedic Products

Abstract

Orthopedics and Rehabilitation are two disciplines related to technological change that generate a high demand and a growing volume of activity in developed countries. The design and manufacture of Orthopedic Product has recently undergone great development as it benefits from advances in Industrial Design and new Advanced Manufacturing techniques based on Rapid Prototyping and Additive Manufacturing. The Industrial Design applied to the Orthopedic Product offers to this sector great possibilities of development in the design and manufacture of the splints or orthosis required, but its real implementation requires increasing the provided advantages to those manufactured by traditional methods.The aim of this paper is to invest qualities that improve the chain value of the obtained orthoses by Advanced Manufacturing methods compared to traditional methods, in order to consolidate the expected demand. For this, in addition to ensuring these devices the health function that is required, it is proposed to incorporate the Design Aesthetics as an emotional differentiating element that directly affects the psychology of the injured person to avoid the lack of self-esteem and integration that causes an injury or a morphological alteration.

Design and characterization of 3D-printed TPU-based lattice structures. Application to methodology for the design of personalized therapeutic products

“…For this, a gait analysis is carried out to determine the support points of the foot (García-Dominguez et al , 2020a, 2020b). Other examples focused in the development of orthoses and products for the localized treatment of different parts of the body have been developed (Barrios-Muriel et al , 2020; de Carvalho Filho et al , 2020; Haro et al , 2018; Orozco et al , 2019; Santos et al , 2017; Yan et al , 2019). In general, the method of 3D scanning of the user’s body parts is observed to build a product from the scanned surfaces using CAD and topological optimization.…”

“…This idea turned out to be highly compatible with research interests in sectors related to medicine such as trauma medicine (Lu et al , 2022; de la Rosa et al , 2021), where products with elastic properties specifically focused on the needs of the patient are used to guarantee the comfort (Lopes et al , 2019; Martins et al , 2014). The development of design methodologies and innovative solutions to guarantee the quality of products taking into account personalization and the degree of adaptation, are some of the main goals in the design of personalized products (Barrios-Muriel et al , 2020; Cantaboni et al , 2022; Kumar and Chhabra, 2022; Lu et al , 2022; Orozco et al , 2019). For example, de la Rosa et al used compression data of simulated TPU lattice samples as a methodology to predict the behaviour of untested lattice samples.…”