Who is affected
Persons with a lower limb amputationNarrative
The main goal of the project is to develop a desirable, feasible and viable social business concept for affordable and high quality prostheses, to make prostheses more accessible the Base of the Pyramid in Colombia.During the project we focus on:1. Affordability & high quality2. Accessibility3. Service-system and business model innovation (or feasibility within Colombian health system)The project duration lasts five months, in which we combine field research in Colombia with our technical knowledge. The end result will be a working prototype with a strategic plan including a business model.Three people from the team have already spent four weeks in Colombia conducting field research to determine where the real problems lie. We spoke to doctors, amputees, prosthetic technicians and centres, insurance companies and other stakeholders in order to gain a deep understanding of the context.Now we need to send three people from our team to Colombia to test and validate our product-service system designs with amputees, technicians and doctors, in the context for which it is designed. From the 19th of December, we are sending three team members to Colombia with a prototype that has a new technology from Strathclyde University Scotland, which has been tested in Iraq and Afghanistan. This technology allows amputees to get a better-fitting socket that can be made within one day, which means that amputees could return to their family and work sooner than that the current process allows. Our design is a product-service system that is supported by this technology.Impact status | Open |
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Category of impact | Health and welfare - new products, guidelines and services, Economic and commerce |
Impact level | Engagement |
Keywords
- prosthetics
- low income countries
- rehabilitation
- economic sustainability
- pressure casting
- education
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Related content
Activities
Laboratorio Gilete, Bogota D.C, Colombia
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
Scots help set up Legbank
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Foundation want lower limb prostheses for everybody
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Leg bank for amputees
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Landmine leg bank plan
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Legbank initiative presentation to Bill Gates
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
TU Delft, Industrial design
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
LEG BANK’ HOPE FOR CHANGING AMPUTEES’ LIVES
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Bedrijf wil onderbeben voor iedereen (foundation want lowerlimb prostheses for everybody)
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Google grants $1million to prosthetic limb venture
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
LegBank
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Prosthetics limb LegBank receives $1 million Google grant
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Google support for the Legbank project
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Leg bank for Colombia
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Legbank initiative presentation to Bill Gates
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Scots help set up leg bank
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Colombiaanse protheses en Ghanese landkaarten
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Google support for the Legbank project
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
ELKEM ltd project visit
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Business and Community - Hosting of external, non-academic visitor
Google grants £1m to prosthetic limb venture
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Prosthetic limb LegBank receives $1m Google grant
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Victims' leg up
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Advanced low-cost prosthetic project receives Google funding
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Prosthetic limb LegBank receives $1m Google grant
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Google aid for Legbank
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
LegBank
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Media Exposure of the Legbank initiative
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
LegBank
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Legbank presentation to Bill Gates
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: WHAT DO YOU DO EXACTLY? PART1
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Prosthetic limb LegBank receives $1m Google grant
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
LegBank presentation to Bill Gates
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Leg bank will help victims of landmines
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Majicast product demonstration
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
War victims are helped with lower limb prostheses
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Limbs boost for landmine victims
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
Impacts
Engagement with the Prosthetic and orthotic clinic of the Ministry of social affairs, Banjul, The Gambia
Impact: Impact - for External Portal › Quality of life and safety
Research Output
Inter and Intra Socket Shape and Volume Consistency Assessed Using MRI for Hands-on and Hands-off Casting of Amputee Below Knee Sockets
Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
Provision of prosthetic and orthotic services in low-income countries: a review of the literature
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Prizes
The Legbank initiative
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
the legbank initiative
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Cordaid social adventure
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Cordaid Social Adventure
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
A Celebration of Innovation
Prize: Other distinction