High heels cause foot deformation? 3D printing coming to save you-high heels, 3D printing-IT information

Love to wear "stiletto" girls, and very likely to suffer from hammertoes. Hammertoes form is due to the extended toe, flexor muscle strength imbalances caused by this unbalanced muscle forces acting in compressive deformation and interphalangeal joints, leading to joint deformity, is in the unusual position of joints, prolonged pressure on the formation of traumatic arthritis, severe narrowing of the joint space, forming irreversible malformation. Typically, the second toe than the other toes, their women than men, may be associated with shoe habit and pathogenesis of hallux valgus.

According to 3Dprint reported United States New Jersey orthopaedic limb devices Additive Orthopaedics has announced that the company has used a 3D implant successful treatment of hammertoes.

Traditional treatment methods, in addition to the patients wear comfortable shoes and toes fully extended, a primary form of physical therapy, mainly through joint exercises or through support forced the toe to make restitution. And now, Additive Orthopaedics patients would only need to go through an operation, can rehabilitate the toe again.

Founder, Greg Kowalczyk, said they developed the implants can only be implemented by an additive manufacturing process, 3D printing, with its flexible features, better universal different symptoms.

Additive a major investor in Orthopaedics is Asimov's VC firm, and now the company is preparing to start a second round of financing. Currently tests under FDA review, is expected to be approved after extensive promotion to the United States in various clinics, while at the same time, Additive Orthopaedics continues to develop other implant, to heal the claw-toed foot problems.

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对于爱穿“恨天高”的女孩子们，非常容易患上槌状趾。槌状趾的形成是由于伸趾、屈趾肌力的不平衡所引起，这种不平衡肌力作用在受压变形的趾间关节，导致关节变形，处于异常位置的关节，长期受压形成创伤性关节炎，严重时关节间隙变窄，形成不可逆的畸形。通常情况下，第二趾发生较其它足趾多，其发病女性多于男性，可能与穿鞋习惯及拇外翻发病多有关。

据3Dprint报道，美国新泽西的骨科肢体设备商Additive Orthopaedics日前宣布，公司已经利用一种3D打印的植入物成功治疗槌状趾。

而传统的治疗方式，除了让患者穿宽松的新鞋，使脚趾能充分伸展外，主要的物理治疗方式主要是通过关节锻炼或者通过支架强行让脚趾恢复原状。而现在，Additive Orthopaedics表示患者只需要通过一个手术，就能使脚趾康复如初。

创始人Greg Kowalczyk表示，他们成功研发的这种植入物只能由增材制造工艺实现，而3D打印凭借其灵活的特性，能够更好地普适不同的症状。

Additive Orthopaedics的一大投资商是阿西莫夫风投公司，而现在公司正准备开始第二轮融资。目前测试物正在接受FDA审核，预计在获批后会广泛推广给美国的各大诊所，而与此同时，Additive Orthopaedics还在继续研发其它植入物，以治愈爪状趾等足部疾病。