In-hospital professional production of patient-specific 3D-printed devices for hand and wrist rehabilitation

M Keller; A Guebeli; Florian Thieringer; Philipp Honigmann

doi:10.1016/j.hansur.2020.10.016

In-hospital professional production of patient-specific 3D-printed devices for hand and wrist rehabilitation

Hand Surg Rehabil. 2021 Apr;40(2):126-133. doi: 10.1016/j.hansur.2020.10.016. Epub 2020 Dec 10.

Authors

M Keller¹, A Guebeli², Florian Thieringer³, Philipp Honigmann⁴

Affiliations

¹ Hand Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Kantonsspital Baselland, Rheinstrasse 26, 4410 Liestal, Switzerland. Electronic address: Marco.Keller@ksbl.ch.
² Hand Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Kantonsspital Baselland, Rheinstrasse 26, 4410 Liestal, Switzerland. Electronic address: Alissa.Guebeli@ksbl.ch.
³ Department of Oral and Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 21, 4031 Basel, Switzerland; Medical Additive Manufacturing Research Group, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Gewerbestrasse 14, 4123 Allschwil, Switzerland. Electronic address: Florian.Thieringer@usb.ch.
⁴ Hand Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Kantonsspital Baselland, Rheinstrasse 26, 4410 Liestal, Switzerland; Medical Additive Manufacturing Research Group, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Gewerbestrasse 14, 4123 Allschwil, Switzerland; Department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: Philipp.Honigmann@ksbl.ch.

PMID: 33309787
DOI: 10.1016/j.hansur.2020.10.016

Abstract

The reported use of 3D printing in hand and wrist rehabilitation has been mostly limited to feasibility studies and case series so far. Some of the reasons are the lack of purpose-built scanning applications, complicated digital design software, and lengthy and error-prone printing processes. We propose a multidisciplinary workflow for in-hospital mass production of patient-specific 3D-printed devices for hand and wrist rehabilitation.

Keywords: 3D printing; DLP; Digital light processing; Dépôt de fil fondu; FDM; Fused deposition modeling; Impression 3D; Traitement numérique de la lumière.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Feasibility Studies
Hospitals
Humans
Printing, Three-Dimensional*
Wrist*