What do Swiss timepieces and sailing rigging systems have in common with orthopedic braces? More than you might think. The engineers at Osteoid drew inspiration from these precision mechanical systems to create Bracesys, a revolutionary approach to fracture immobilization that challenges everything we thought we knew about medical casts. Traditional plaster casts have remained largely
Um, first of all I haven’t seen a plaster cast in 40 years, they’ve been fiberglass at least that long, which means they weigh 1/4 of a plaster cast.
Second, we’ve been using other braces instead, like plastics with Velcro wraps that can be removed to clean a wound or just the skin.
I don’t trust when people are disingenuous about current state of things to promote their solution as so much better.
Or they do a partial fiberglass 60% of the circumference and wrap that so it can be removed. Its honestly great, there is little need to change it.
Maybe if it was a true 3d scan to print, that had it ready in 10 minutes, I could see that. But that would still be better as a mesh rather than whatever this is.