Knee injuries are common in modern society. The rehabilitation of these injuries often includes the use of knee braces, either post-injury or post-surgery, as an integral part of the rehabilitation process. Since all patients require a different sized brace, this project proposes to develop a system for the 3-D scanning and printing of custom designed rehabilitation knee braces.
Undergraduate
This project will investigate ways of 3-D printing flexible and rigid filaments and connecting them integrally without the use of additional materials or components. The project will further develop a design produced in 2016 and also improve the existing life-cycle testing method. Thus the proposed outcome of the project is to further develop a novel, technique for connecting together flexible and rigid 3-D printer filaments to withstand the loads experienced by knee braces in the post knee surgery rehabilitation phase.
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Lab allocations have not been finalised