Bones Orthopedic Cast with Sensors Records Muscle Activities Around Fractured Areas

Pedro Nakazato has designed Bones orthopedic cast with sensors to capture the muscle activities around the fracture area and stimulate full recovery time of the patient. The main objective of this project is to provide specific information and achievement of the patients based on their level of exercises during the cast period. Bones will simulate the time of recovery based on all the physical activity data of the patient.

Designer : Pedro Nakazato Andrade

Bones Orthopedic Cast with Sensors by Pedro Nakazato Andrade

Bones Orthopedic Cast with Sensors by Pedro Nakazato Andrade


Patients go to Hospital when they suffer from bone fractures to be analyzed and receive proper treatment from the doctor. They will be presented with Bones orthopedic cast. Each time the user turns on Bones, the EMG sensors will record all muscle activity around the fractured area and save the data in the cast device. All this information will then go into the community based website of Bones where Doctors, physiotherapists, and other new users of Bones can follow the patient’s progress. In this way, new users can visualize their achievement based on the data from former patients with the same type of fracture. Sharing this information is a good way to encourage other patients to engage with their recovery process from beginning of the treatment.

Bones Orthopedic Cast with Sensors by Pedro Nakazato Andrade

Bones Orthopedic Cast with Sensors by Pedro Nakazato Andrade

Bones Orthopedic Cast with Sensors by Pedro Nakazato Andrade

In the end, using Bones orthopedic cast can reduce the overall period of recovery time. Because the recovering process from a fractured bone doesn’t depend only on period spent with the cast but the entire activity and muscle strains recovery process. During the cast period the fractured limb loses huge amounts of muscle strain due to the inactivity of the area. One of the causes is that users start to exercise the limb only after removing the cast while they should be engaged in keeping the muscles around the fractured area active from the very first day with the cast.

Bones Orthopedic Cast with Sensors by Pedro Nakazato Andrade

Bones Orthopedic Cast with Sensors by Pedro Nakazato Andrade

Bones Orthopedic Cast with Sensors by Pedro Nakazato Andrade

For this project, the designer has done some research to decide the material for the cast. It has to be lighter, hygienic, and thinner compared to traditional material. He decided to use Polycaprolactone for the cast. The muscle sensors are embedded on the band which goes under the Bones orthopedic cast to keep the muscle tension around the fractured area.

Bones Orthopedic Cast with Sensors by Pedro Nakazato Andrade

Bones Orthopedic Cast with Sensors by Pedro Nakazato Andrade

Bones Orthopedic Cast with Sensors by Pedro Nakazato Andrade



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One thought on “Bones Orthopedic Cast with Sensors Records Muscle Activities Around Fractured Areas

  1. Prevention is better than cure. This is the wisdom that is often neglected. Bone problem is a serious problem and it depends on how we take good care of ourselves. We never knew when accident will happen. In this, I suggest to seek for professional help of Chiropractor for, it’s always the best to have natural healing.

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