The Low-Cost Design And 3D Printing Of Structural Knee Orthotics For Athletic Knee Injury Patients

Low-cost Knee Brace Prototype for Rehabilitation After Sports Injury

“…The size of the design [8] and force applied have been carried out which are measured from the actual patient and the value has been set as written in Table 1 and Table 2. The points where the forces were applied is following the study by Hendricks et al [6] which shown in Figure 1. Material is very important; it determines the quality and strength of the design [9].…”

“…One common injury is the knee joints injuries, which are reformed using knee braces, but unfortunately for rehabilitative knee braces with good quality for Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL), Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL), meniscus, and arthritis have cost average of $100 until $900 which make this device as expensive in term of recovery devices and it is non-affordable for some patients even though these devices are used to support rehabilitation [5]. This study is based on a study from Hendricks et al [6] which study to design low-cost knee orthotics but faced some problems on design and material which this study tried to solve it.…”

“…This study aims to find solutions to some of the problems present in the previous paper [6], the design of low-cost knee braces previously can only be used by people with MCL and Lateral Collateral Ligament (LCL) injuries, this study was conducted to design experiments that can also help people with ACL. Next, the selected material was less strong previously.…”