Open AccessAutomated fabrication of mobility aids (AFMA): Below-knee CASD/CAM testing and evaluation program results
Author(s) -
Vern L. Houston,
Ernest M. Burgess,
Dudley S. Childress,
H R Lehneis,
Carl P. Mason,
Mary Anne Garbarini,
Kenneth P. LaBlanc,
David A. Boone,
Richmond B. Chan,
John H. Harlan,
Michael D Brncick
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of rehabilitation research and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1938-1352
pISSN - 0748-7711
DOI - 10.1682/jrrd.1992.10.0078
Subject(s) - research center , cad , veterans affairs , rehabilitation , computer aided design , engineering , engineering management , computer aided manufacturing , medicine , medical education , physical therapy , mechanical engineering , engineering drawing , pathology
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.