Knee bracing has been used to realize a variety of functional outcomes in both sport and rehabilitation application. Much of the literature focuses on the effect of knee misalignment, force reduction and superiority of custom braces over commercial over-the-counter braces. Efforts on developing exoskeletons to serve as knee augmentation systems emphasize actuation of joints, which then adds to ...

The influence of law on the orthodontic profession has greatly increased in the last few decades. Dental law has emerged today as a full-fedged specialty dealing with a variety of areas, like professional negligence, doctor-patient contracts, consumer protection laws, ethics, general and special health legislations and practice regulatory mechanisms. This article highlights the concept of infor...

The efficacy of prophylactic knee bracing has been refuted with regard to reducing the incidence and/or severity of injuries to the knee joint. This is thought to be a result of the prophylactic knee brace's ineffectiveness in protecting the knee joint from valgus loads. Furthermore, discrepancies exist regarding the prophylactic knee brace's detrimental effect on functional performance. The pu...

General Principles of Bracing Within recent years, reemphasis upon the rehabilitation of severely disabled individuals has "spotlighted" the importance of proper lilting braces in the teaching of ambulation and daily activities. There seem to be several points of view regarding the intelligent selection of braces for lower extre­ mities. One group holds that patients should be braced maximally ...

L. N. Childs defined a bi-skew brace to be skew such that if we swap the role of two operations, then find again brace. In this paper, give systematic analysis braces. We study nilpotency and solubility, connections between braces set-theoretic solutions Yang–Baxter equation. Further, deal with Byott's conjecture in case braces, use as tool solve classification problem proposed by Vendramin. fi...

A questionnaire survey of patient satisfaction with the provision of lower limb orthoses from a district general hospital was conducted. Lower limb orthoses included "made-to-measure" footwear, knee braces and ankle-foot-orthoses (AFO's). Prescriptions for footwear and AFO's during a one year period, and knee braces over a two year period were assessed. The survey did not confine itself to a si...

Material and methods 200 AIS patients (70 traditional Full-Time-Braces, 96 double treatments with traditional Day-Brace plus additional Night-Time-Brace and 34 patients with isolated Night-Time-Braces) have been included in a comprehensive, anonymous compliance survey. We distinguished daytimeand nighttime-compliance and various kinds of activity. We also asked patients and parents for their pr...

BACKGROUND The use of soft braces to treat scoliosis has been described by Fischer as early as 1876. With the help of elastic straps, as the authors suggested, a corrective movement for individual curve patterns should be maintained in order to inhibit curve progression. Today this concept has been revived besides soft 3 point pressure systems. Some shortcomings have been revealed in literature...