Personalized Orthotic Footwear for Relieving Knee Pain and Retarding Progression of Knee Osteoarthritis through Balancing Dynamic Knee Loading

Research unit

INNOSUISSE

Project number

104.374 IP-LS

Project title

Personalized Orthotic Footwear for Relieving Knee Pain and Retarding Progression of Knee Osteoarthritis through Balancing Dynamic Knee Loading

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Key words (English)	Life sciences, Medtech
Abstract (English)	Knee osteoarthritis presents a huge and growing socioeconomic burden. We will develop customized-stiffness orthotic footwear that balances each subject?s dynamic knee loading conditions based on their joint kinematics during daily activities, validated using unique experimental tools.