Physiatrist University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Brief Session Description : Traditionally P&O devices are made with labour intensive manual casts, plaster moulds, and layering socket material. New digital fabrication technologies are emerging with digital scans, computer aided design, and 3D printing. Digital technologies have benefits of improving access, reducing material costs, reducing manual labour, shortening device fabrication times and lessening environmental waste. The benefits and challenges of digital P&O fabrication will be reviewed with real case examples from Canada and Ukraine using FDM and fusion jet 3D printing technologies.
Session Objectives:
Identify types of 3D printing technologies for Prosthetics and Orthotics (P&O) and discuss the clinical and climate change benefits of digital P&O fabrication techniques versus traditional manual techniques.
