Floor Reaction Afo Fabrication

In these cases the floor reaction afo functions to maintain the affected joints in proper alignment to accentuate knee extension at midstance and compensate.

Floor reaction afo fabrication. A floor reaction afo is generally used with patients affected by neurological conditions such as spina bifida cerebral palsy brain injury spinal cord injury and post polio paralysis. If the floor reaction afo has a detachable anterior panel loosen the straps on the side of the panel 3. Floor reaction orthosis is a revolutionary orthoses. The material cost is lower but perhaps more importantly the time required for fabrication is approximately one third less.

Make sure the heel is fully seated. For more topics in. The heel needs to be all the way back and in. To slide the foot and leg into the frafo plantarflex the ankle point the toes down through the top of the orthosis see figure 4.

A ground floor reaction ankle foot orthosis grafo or frafo is a type of custom fabricated molded plastic afo capable of triplanar control of the foot ankle complex. This video describes its parts principle of fro uses advantages and disadvantages. Like many afo designs the grafo improves frontal plane stability and is.