Design considerations for a wearable pediatric rehabilitative boot

Kuren, Michael Bailey-Van; Gillette, S.; Mejia, Paloma; Stoever, T.; Walker, Alexander

doi:10.1109/icorr.2005.1501128

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“…This grouping focused on footwear that was designed for the treatment of childhood musculoskeletal or neurological locomotor disability with the underlying principle of last and sole modification to influence the structure and function of the child's foot [8,23,24,33,[56][57][58]. Numerous terms were used to define therapeutic footwear throughout the literature including orthopaedic shoes, shoe corrections, rehabilitative boots, modified shoes, arch support footwear, supportive shoes, special shoes, medical shoes and wedged shoes [23,25,56,[59][60][61][62][63][64]. Of the 77 articles in this group, 23 explored the effects of therapeutic footwear empirically with the age range given in 9 of these articles; age groups were roughly equally represented in these studies: infant and preschool (n = 6), primary school (n = 7) and adolescent (n = 5).…”

Section: Therapeutic Footwearmentioning

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Key concepts in children's footwear research: a scoping review focusing on therapeutic footwear

Hill

Healy

Chockalingam

2019

Journal of Foot and Ankle Research

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Background Reports suggest that children with mobility impairment represent a significant proportion of the population living with a disability. Footwear is considered to be the key extrinsic factor affecting children’s gait and footwear modifications have been historically postulated to assist with locomotory difficulty. Although therapeutic footwear has been considered within the literature, there is a lack of consistency on terminology and paucity on the overall understanding. A scoping review was performed to chart the key concepts in children’s footwear and to establish the range of studies that considered therapeutic footwear. Methods A systematic search of MEDLINE, CINAHL, PubMed, SPORTdiscus, and Scopus electronic databases was performed using MeSH headings and free text terms in relation to children’s footwear. All studies that used footwear as an intervention in children aged 9 months to 18 years with the outcome measures including design, fit, and the effects on development and health were included. Studies were charted by textual narrative synthesis into research groupings dependent on the topics discussed and the methods used in the studies. Results The search yielded a total of 5006 articles with 287 of these articles meeting the inclusion criteria. Two overarching areas of research were identified; articles that discussed footwear design and those that discussed the effects of footwear. Eight further general groupings were charted and apportioned between the overarching areas and therapeutic footwear was charted into three subgroupings (corrective, accommodative and functional). Conclusion Children’s footwear has become an increasing area of research in the past decade with a shift towards more empirical research, with most of the included articles examining biomechanical and anthropometric aspects. However, children’s therapeutic footwear has not shared the same recent impetus with no focused review and limited research exploring its effects. Empirical research in this area is limited and there is ambiguity in the terminology used to describe therapeutic footwear. Based on the findings of this review the authors suggest the term children’s therapeutic footwear be used as the standard definition for footwear that is designed specifically with the purpose to support or alleviate mobility impairment in childhood; with subgroupings of corrective, accommodative and functional dependent on the intended therapeutic role. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s13047-019-0336-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Section: Therapeutic Footwearmentioning

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Key concepts in children's footwear research: a scoping review focusing on therapeutic footwear

Hill

Healy

Chockalingam

2019

Journal of Foot and Ankle Research

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“…There are a number of groups who have been developing ideas and devices exploiting SMA for imparting forces on or producing movements of body parts, especially with the aim of assisting or replacing lost functions. The most relevant experiences address biomedical problems, such as the mobilization of paralyzed hands, fingers (e.g., [ 7 , 8 , 9 ]) and other segments [ 10 ], the support of gait (e.g., [ 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ]) and limb repositioning [ 16 ]. The corpus of published literature highlights the promising aspects of SMA technology [ 17 ] and also describes the limitations connected with those materials.…”

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Applications of Shape Memory Alloys for Neurology and Neuromuscular Rehabilitation

Pittaccio

Garavaglia

Ceriotti

et al. 2015

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Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are a very promising class of metallic materials that display interesting nonlinear properties, such as pseudoelasticity (PE), shape memory effect (SME) and damping capacity, due to high mechanical hysteresis and internal friction. Our group has applied SMA in the field of neuromuscular rehabilitation, designing some new devices based on the mentioned SMA properties: in particular, a new type of orthosis for spastic limb repositioning, which allows residual voluntary movement of the impaired limb and has no predetermined final target position, but follows and supports muscular elongation in a dynamic and compliant way. Considering patients in the sub-acute phase after a neurological lesion, and possibly bedridden, the paper presents a mobiliser for the ankle joint, which is designed exploiting the SME to provide passive exercise to the paretic lower limb. Two different SMA-based applications in the field of neuroscience are then presented, a guide and a limb mobiliser specially designed to be compatible with diagnostic instrumentations that impose rigid constraints in terms of electromagnetic compatibility and noise distortion. Finally, the paper discusses possible uses of these materials in the treatment of movement disorders, such as dystonia or hyperkinesia, where their dynamic characteristics can be advantageous.

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“…In [35], a concept for a paediatric boot is described. In the intention of the authors, a control system would activate two NiTi wires producing slow movement of the ankle and provide the possibility for home passive mobilisation.…”

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“…Other papers [35][36][37][38][39][40][41] concentrated on the lower limb. In [35], a concept for a paediatric boot is described.…”

Section: Functional Exercisementioning

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2012

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Design considerations for a wearable pediatric rehabilitative boot

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Key concepts in children's footwear research: a scoping review focusing on therapeutic footwear

Key concepts in children's footwear research: a scoping review focusing on therapeutic footwear

Applications of Shape Memory Alloys for Neurology and Neuromuscular Rehabilitation

Shape Memory Actuators for Medical Rehabilitation and Neuroscience

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