Mijn vader print armen en benen
"Mijn vader print armen en benen", vertelt Mbalu uit Sierra Leone. Deze week vertelt Mbalu, de dochter van Osman over het 3D project in het Masanga Hospital Sierra Leone in het kindertijdschrift:…
Health for All Film Festival – Students special prize of the World Health Organization
Last week we won the Health for All Film Festival - Students special prize of the World Health Organization. Our Dutch-Sierra Leonean teams feel very honored to receive this award. Idrissah…
Prosthetic rehabilitation course Masanga 2022!
The past two weeks I traveled together with Ruud Leijendekkers and Marco Papenburg to Masanga in Sierra Leone to give a course in rehabilitation for prosthetics to the fourth-year Bachelor students physiotherapy.Together with the…
The baton is handed over to Pien!
Last weeks ten leg prostheses were made by our 3D team. In the middle of the group picture, you see a selection of the people who received a prosthesis. Joshep…
3D-printed prosthesis for a small boy
One and a half years ago, this little boy had to undergo an amputation of his lower leg at the Masanga Hospital Sierra Leone. Last week his family suddenly stood in…
Research in masanga
Already three weeks in Masanga. Time flies! The first week we had a "small problem" with the inverter of the 3D-printers. So we had to take care of this problem…
Back in Masanga to continue the 3D project!
Als je uit het vliegtuig stapt komt de klamme hitte je tegemoet. Aan de rolstoelen voor de mensen zijn die slechter ter been zijn en uit het vliegtuig geholpen worden,…
3D Sierra Leone is running at full speed!
3D Sierra Leone (Foundation 3D Printing in developing countries) is running at full speed! Together with our research group of Technical Medicine, Industrial design, Mechanical engineering, and Biomedical engineering students…
We won at the #DCRM2020
Last Friday we won the best poster prize at the Dutch rehabilitation congres: #DCRM2020, entitled: Pioneering low-cost 3D-printed transtibial prosthetics to serve a rural population in Sierra Leone. We feel very…
Starting as a PhD candidate
Officially starting as PhD candidate at the 3D Lab in the Radboudumc! In the coming years we will continue researching 3D printed prostheses for the Netherlands and Sierra Leone. In…