Laser Scan Orthotics

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Using their expertise and decades of experience building the best scanners, the industry has developed the the 3D volumetric scanning  devices build for creating a high resolution rendering of the foot and  lower leg.   High resolution, 3D volumetric scanning of the foot and lower leg  provide the most accurately fitted devices ever available. 

The 3D Optical Laser Foot Scanner  accurately measures thousands of points on the foot's many contours to  create an accurate end product and an orthotic shell that is guaranteed  for life. The real-time interactive image displaying dimensions and  rotating 3D views is then transmitted to computers in the laboratory for  accurate, reliable and repeatable orthotics. 

This type laser scanner takes only a few seconds to capture a vivid 3D image of your foot.

A 2007 cost benefit analysis study compared plaster impression casting with digital impression scanning.1 According to this study, plaster casting costs anywhere from $28 to $50  per casting event versus $3 to $11 per digital scanning event. It takes  on average 11 minutes to make a plaster cast versus only two minutes on  average for a digital scan. This is a significant time savings for busy  practitioners and also allows more opportunity cost whereby to make up  the initial investment in the acquisition of a digital scanner.

Digital scanning also saves on shipping costs to the lab for  manufacturing and eliminates the risks of damage occurring to casts  during shipping. The acquisition of a digital scanner can cost anywhere  between $1,200 and $2,500 these days. Therefore, there is likely even  more overall savings than the study showed from eight years ago as  material costs and shipping have only gone up while most scanners likely  cost much less.

A truly revolutionary component of this process is the real time GAIT analysis using the high resolution pressure plate.

Using  this device we are able to capture the pressures you exert on your  feet, the locations and the intensity as you walk or run across the  plate.

This data can then be interpreted to confirm the diagnosis and develop solutions with a more precise orthotic prescription.

All of the data is transferred to the 3D printing farm utilizing HP 3D  printers. These devices can turn out thousands of pairs of orthotics per  day beginning with only beads that are turned into a honeycomb lattice  structure which morphs into a custom pair of orthotics made specifically  for the patient.