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Ankle Foot Orthosis invention designed to 'grow with your child' wins national James Dyson Award
RMIT student’s sustainable entry supports children with walking impairments
26 August 2021
This year’s James Dyson Award National Winner is RMIT University’s Aaron Nguyen, designer of the LUNA Modular AFO, an Ankle Foot Orthosis (AFO) system for children with Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), designed to adapt to the growing users modularly increasing the AFOs product life and comfort for the user.
Every three weeks in Australia, a child is born with a HSP mutation, a broad group of inherited, degenerative disorders characterised by impaired walking due to spasticity (stiffness) and weakness of the leg. Having grown up with two relatives with HSP, Aaron became aware of the problems caused by current orthoses provided to users.