A Durable, Quick Drying Bone Stablization Device

Danbury Elementary School Engineering, 2000-01

Liaison(s): Arny Bloom
Advisor(s): Rich Phillips
Students(s): Eddie Espanol (TL), Vipal Lugade, Carman Ng, Dara Finkelstein (CMC)

The Danbury Clinic team is designing a device that will function as a traditional cast used for bone fractures and allow Danbury Elementary School students with the rare bone disease Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) to bathe, shower and swim. Danbury Elementary school serves students with physical disabilities and health impairments in the East San Gabriel Valley. There are seven students that attend Danbury that possess OI, which can easily be characterized as brittle bones disease.