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Effect of 3D-Printed Ankle Foot Orthosis During Walking of Foot Deformities Patients

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Lower leg foot orthoses are orthotic contraptions that help the decline leg joint and are suitable for a few pathologies, for the most part those that enhance the foot drop situation, that is by virtue of a lower leg joint inadequacy. In the common works of art, a specially crafted rendition of lower leg foot orthosis connected as a piece of the human casing has been made. Additive manufacturing frameworks have been used to make the decline leg foot orthosis (selective laser sintering technology). Kinematic estimations were gotten in a walk lab from foot drop sufferers, with and without 3D plastic-printed decline leg foot orthoses on unmarried feet. The results were given shown that with the orthoses, the lower leg joint conduct is kind of an immediately torsional spring, without a hysteresis. With an objective to test the adequacy of the AFO, clinical gait analysis of foot drop patients has been finished. Altered 3D distributed ankle foot orthosis has been mounted to give better gait cycle execution. The effects of this research exhibited that the patients in foot drop sufferers with 3D appropriated lower leg foot orthosis is assessed through Clinical Gait assessment.

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    Harish Kumar Banga, Parveen Kalra & Rajendra M. Belokar

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Banga, H.K., Kalra, P., Belokar, R.M., Kumar, R. (2020). Effect of 3D-Printed Ankle Foot Orthosis During Walking of Foot Deformities Patients. In: Kumar, H., Jain, P. (eds) Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1071-7_23

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