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Enables Practitioners to See what Patients are Feeling
The patent pending Smart Pyramid™ builds on Orthocare Innovations' Compas™ technology platform to assist providers in achieving optimal, measurable patient outcomes. Smart Pyramid™ incorporates on-board logic into the endoskeletal structure to offer practitioners an easy, understandable way to assess prosthesis function and minimize the effects of suboptimal alignment.
For over 30 years, modular endoskeletal components have served as the foundation for prosthesis stability and structural integrity. Smart Pyramid™ builds on this history by establishing a new standard in endoskeletal componentry - Embedded Precision™.
Smart Pyramid™ Achieves Optimal Prosthesis Alignment
Optimal alignment is about how a prosthesis feels. Smart Pyramid™ helps practitioners assess what the patient is feeling: is the device pulling in one way or another? Is the patient in balance with his or her prosthesis?
Smart Pyramid™ enables practitioners to dynamically tune and optimize prosthesis function. If alignment is not optimized, forces on a patient’s residual limb will eventually create discomfort, bruising and skin breakdowns, resulting in pain, possible infections and reduced levels of activity.
Advanced Technology: Easily Incorporated Component
The instrument-grade Smart Pyramid™ replicates the industry-standard inverted pyramid design in the familiar European four-hole attachment configuration. It is easily integrated into any new or existing endoskeletal lower limb prosthesis, requires no batteries or servicing, and is sealed against moisture penetration.
The Smart Pyramid™ is mounted just distal to the socket, with the notch in the four-hole connection plate facing forward, indicating the line of progression. Smart Pyramid™ overcomes difficulty in comparing performance of a prosthesis over time since reference points do not change, ensuring that every measurement is comparable to the previous measurement.
Bringing Standardization and Optimization to Alignment
Smart Pyramid™ allows real-time measurements of the Socket Reaction Forces, or torques, that are being applied to the residual limb during ambulation. When used in conjunction with the Compas™ System, the integrated microprocessor automatically provides the following key indicators:
- Body Weight
- Vertical Weight Bearing Through Prosthesis
- Sagittal and Coronal Plane Torques
- Stance Time
- Swing Time
- Cadence
- Center of Pressure Progression
With the Smart Pyramid™ incorporated into the prosthesis, the prosthetist can objectively verify and document when the artificial limb is well aligned, increasing the confidence of the client, prescriber, and payer that the best possible clinical outcome has been achieved.
Smart Pyramid™ was developed with the support of the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research, National Institutes of Health, Grant Numbers R43HD047119 and R44HD047119
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