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Automated fabrication of mobility aids (AFMA): Below-knee CASD/CAM testing and evaluation program results

1992; United States Department of Veterans Affairs; Volume: 29; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1682/jrrd.1992.10.0078

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Vern L. Houston, Ernest M. Burgess, Dudley S. Childress, H R Lehneis, Carl P. Mason, Mary Anne Garbarini, Kenneth P. LaBlanc, David Boone, Richmond B. Chan, John H. Harlan, Michael D Brncick,

Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility

In 1988 the Department of Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, under the directorship of Margaret J. Giannini, M.D., began a nationally directed computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) research program for the Automated Fabrication of Mobility Aids (AFMA). Under this program CAD/CAM research and development centers were established at the Prosthetics Research Study in Seattle, WA; at Northwestern University and the VA Lakeside Medical Center in Chicago, IL; and at the VA Medical Center and New York University Medical Center in New York, NY. These three centers conducted a collaborative program: (a) to introduce CAD/CAM technologies to prosthetists, physicians, therapists, and rehabilitation health care professionals in the United States; (b) to evaluate the feasibility of using CAD/CAM systems in clinical prosthetics settings; (c) to test and evaluate the University College London-Bioengineering Center's and the University of British Columbia-Medical Engineering Resource Unit's respective systems for the computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacture of prosthetic sockets (CASD/CAM) for below-knee amputees; and, (d) to obtain quantitative data for refinement of the CASD/CAM systems tested, and for the development of new, enhanced, more efficacious, and expedient systems.