To browse Academia. More than , babies born worldwide each year with clubfoot. The main goal is to achieve a functional, pain free, planti-grade foot with good mobility. The main reason of relapse of deformity after correction is non-compliance to bracing program as it is a lengthy process.
Foot abduction is an immanent component of treatment within the Ponseti method. It is a treatment procedure where the clubfoot patient adheres to the post-corrective bracing protocol to prevent relapse of the deformity that has turned the foot downward and elevated inwards. In order to encourage the patients' compliance to the foot abduction orthosis FAO , various designs have been introduced in the market in the hope of improving the rate of compliance.
The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the assessment of the clubfoot patients' FAO need at the orthopaedic clinic of Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia in Kelantan, Malaysia. The assessment aims to understand the clubfoot patients' lower limb movements, in order to generate ideas for the prototype design development to improve the FAO design based on the existing product in the market. In addition, a total of 10 clubfoot patients' parents were interviewed to obtain user experience data.
This study suggests the need to eliminate the foot plates and the bulky protruding shoe and brace locks that are heavy due to the material use. Consequently, a conceptual design of the FAO was successfully developed as a proposal for potential future development of the working prototype to optimise the patients' dynamic movement.
Foot drop is one of the most common secondary conditions associated with hemiplegia post stroke and cerebral palsy CP in children, and is characterized by the inability to lift the foot dorsiflexion about the ankle. This investigation focuses on children and adolescents diagnosed with brain injury and aims to evaluate the orthotic and therapeutic effects due to continuous use of a foot drop stimulator FDS. Primary outcome measures included using mechanistic joint kinematics, toe displacement, temporal-spatial asymmetry , and functional gait parameters speed, step length, time to evaluate the orthotic and therapeutic effects.
