A scoping review of digital fabrication techniques applied to prosthetics & orthotics: Part 2 of 2
Dr Ben Oldfrey, Dr Dafne Morgado Ramirez, Catherine Holloway, Matthew Wassall, Christopher Nester, Alex Dickinson, Man S Wong, Jamie Danemayer, Laurence Kenney, Edward Lemaire, Nerrolyn Ramstrand, Hossein Gholizadeth, Laura E Diment, Margaret K Donovan-Hall, Mark Miodownik
Nov. 13, 2024
Academic Research Publications
Traditionally, orthosis manufacturing is time and labour-intensive.
Digitalisation of some of the fabrication processes is already ubiquitous, yet extension across device types could reduce the burden of manual labour and advance automation to help unblock access to assistive technologies globally. It seems, however, that appropriately strong evidence is holding this back.
This review thoroughly examines the current state of evidence to make this clear.