Method For Producing An Orthosis

Abstract

A method for producing an orthosis includes at least the steps of receiving patient data of at least one body part of a patient, wherein the body part is borne substantially without a holding apparatus during the reception, ascertaining and/or receiving reference coordinates of virtual and/or physical target objects on the body part, wherein the body part is borne substantially without a holding apparatus during the ascertainment and/or reception and wherein the target objects represent at least one location on the surface of the body part that is representative for attaching the orthosis on the body part, individually fitting a digital orthosis model on the basis of the patient data and the reference coordinates, and manufacturing the orthosis on the basis of the digital orthosis model that is fitted in this way.

Claims

1. A method for producing an orthosis, comprising at least the following steps: receiving patient data of at least one body part of a patient, wherein the body part is borne substantially without a holding apparatus during the reception, ascertaining and/or receiving reference coordinates of virtual and/or physical target objects on the body part, wherein the body part is borne substantially without a holding apparatus during the ascertainment and/or reception and wherein the target objects represent at least one location on the surface of the body part that is representative for attaching the orthosis on the body part, individually fitting a digital orthosis model on the basis of the patient data and the reference coordinates, manufacturing the orthosis on the basis of the digital orthosis model that is fitted in this way.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of manufacturing is carried out at least in part with the aid of an additive manufacturing method.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the target objects comprise physical target objects, which are applied to the surface of the body part during a scanning of the body part, and the patient data comprise scan data from this scan.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein positions of the anchoring pads comprise potential contact positions of the body part with the orthosis to be manufactured.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a load distribution on account of opposing forces exerted by the body part in reaction to correction forces along the digital orthosis model is calculated and/or simulated in a state substantially without a holding apparatus, and the geometry of the orthosis is optimized in the digital orthosis model in accordance with the calculated and/or simulated load distribution.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a load distribution on account of opposing forces exerted by the body part in reaction to correction forces along the digital orthosis model is calculated and/or simulated in a state substantially without a holding apparatus, and a perforation and/or lattice structure in the digital orthosis model is generated in accordance with the calculated and/or simulated load distribution.

7. An orthosis for correcting a malposition of a body part, produced by means of a method as claimed in of claim 1.

8. The orthosis as claimed in claim 7, wherein the orthosis has a perforated structure and/or a lattice structure which, at least in regions, is adapted in accordance with the calculated and/or simulated load distribution.

9. The orthosis as claimed in claim 8, wherein the lattice structure has a bone cell structure and/or a Voronoi structure.

10. The orthosis as claimed in claim 8, wherein the orthosis has, either in regions or everywhere, a wall with one or more layers, and the number of layers varies or is constant along the orthosis.

Description

[0029] Below, an example of a method according to the invention for producing an orthosis is described in more detail on the basis of a figure. In detail:

[0030] FIG. 1 shows, in a block diagram, an exemplary embodiment of a production method according to the invention.

[0031] In a first step A, patient data PD of at least one body part of a patient, for example patient data PD of a forearm, are received. These patient data may originate from practically any imaging method, in particular a photographic or sensing-based scan or a medical imaging scan. In a second step B, reference coordinates RK of virtual or physical target objects on the body part are ascertained or received. Both steps A and B are effectuated substantially without a holding apparatus within the aforementioned meaning.

[0032] In a third step C, there is an individual adaptation of a digital orthosis model (which for example is already present in an ideal-typical form of an initial model) on the basis of the patient data PD and the reference coordinates RK. By way of example, for the start point of adapting the orthosis model, it is possible to select from ideal-typical forms of a respective body part of a child, a female adult, and a male adult (however, in principle, it could also be possible to take animal patients into account such that the ideal-typical form of the initial model then preferably relates to the respective species, breed or the like of the relevant animal). The result of the third step C is a fitted orthosis model MOD, on the basis of which the following may now be effectuated in a fourth step D, which may also occur separated in time and/or space from the previously effectuated steps:

[0033] In step D, the orthosis 1 for the respective body part that corresponds to the fitted orthosis model is manufactured, preferably using an additive manufacturing method.

[0034] Steps A, B, and C are also not necessarily directly coupled to one another in space and/or time but may instead also be carried out separately from one another in each case.