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Niels Waterval, on behalf of the research institute Amsterdam Movement Sciences (AMS), has been awarded a € 25,000 AUF Startstipendium to investigate better, personally tailored ankle-foot orthoses (AFO) prescriptions in orthotic care. This grant is made possible by the Spinoza Fund of the Amsterdam University Fund (AUF).
Better, personally tailored AFO prescriptions in orthotic care

More than 30,000 ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) are provided annually in the Netherlands to people with muscle restrictions in the lower leg. For optimal daily use, the stiffness of an AFO must match the user's needs and activities. However, current methods of adjusting stiffness are too cumbersome and focus only on walking on flat surfaces, often leading to non-ideal AFOs. This project is developing a stiffness-adjustable AFO, the ADJUST AFO, that allows easy adjustment of stiffness. Waterval: ‘The data collected with this will help develop a toolbox for better, personally tailored AFO prescriptions in orthotic care.’