There are many musculoskeletal pathologies that are monitored and treated starting from data collected during gait analysis sessions (analysis of walking). The Passo Project aims to overcome these limitations by providing a simple, intuitive but at the same time useful and technologically advanced product aiming at the development of a corrective and therapeutic insole made to measure with an integrated monitoring system.
The sensorized insoles currently on the market are generic insoles useful only for data collection during short or, in rare cases, medium/short sessions. Furthermore, these devices, when equipped with a wireless connection, do not allow prolonged data storage, limiting their use in conjunction with laboratory examinations and preventing remote monitoring of the patient. By combining Medere's expertise in the reconstruction of reference anatomies, digital and computerized modeling of custom-made insoles and orthoses, 3D printing technologies and biomechanical analysis of gait with parameters that can be extrapolated from advanced sensors, it will be possible to have continuous and uninfluenced monitoring with or without the use of therapeutic corrections. The final product developed will also offer high versatility. In fact, it can be used both as therapeutic monitoring when inserted into custom-made corrective insoles, and as an accurate tool for measuring biomechanical parameters in standard insoles to study and plan the most appropriate therapy for each individual.
The PASSO project is co-financed by the Ministry of Economic Development in agreement with the Minister of Economy and Finance within the framework of the "Call for the financing of industrial research and experimental development projects" which promotes the establishment and financing of highly specialized competence centers through MADE (technical and managerial competence center). You can find more information about our project and MADE at the following link link.
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