The project aimed to design a device that would permit inversion at a range of 20 to 30 degrees while minimally hindering motion range in the sagittal plane by mimicking natural ligament behavior through material orientation and selection. Testing was completed for gait, passive muscle movement, and rapid inversion. Results indicate that the splint slowed the rate of ankle inversion and allowed fluid plantar flexion and dorsiflexion. This provides the user optimal healing options for injured lateral ankle ligaments.

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Creator

• March, Kristina Leigh
• Cambrola, Emily Autumn
• Graf, Thomas Michael
• Patel, Krupa Jagdish
• Sheldon, Brianna Lynn

Contributors

• Dunn, Raymond

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-043015-013631

Advisor

• Billiar, Kristen

Year

• 2015

Sponsor

• UMass Medical School

Date created

• 2015-04-30

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Biomedical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-10-09