Rehabilitation Engineering: A Case Study on 3D Printing Technologies

This report presents a case study on the application of 3D printing technologies in rehabilitation engineering, focusing on two articles. The first article explores the potential of 3D printing, scanning, and reverse engineering to revolutionize clinical practice and health sciences, highlighting its role in customization and cost reduction of medical products. The second article reviews the potential of 3D printing in revolutionizing manufacturing in medicine, discussing its applications and limitations, including the production of organs. Both articles are summarized and annotated, with recommendations provided for further study and research. The report emphasizes the potential of 3D printing to address challenges in rehabilitation, potentially leading to advancements in medical device personalization and organ manufacturing.

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Article 1:
Mikołajewska, E., Macko, M., Ziarnecki, Ł., Stańczak, S., Kawalec, P., & Mikołajewski, D.
(2014). 3D printing technologies in rehabilitation engineering.
https://repozytorium.ukw.edu.pl/xmlui/bitstream/handle/item/1300/Mikolajewska
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Annotated Summary:
The author explores the 3D printing, scanning and reverse engineering as
new technologies that can revolutionize the scientific study within the clinical practice and health
sciences. The authors hold that 3D printing can trigger developing personalization or
customization of a range of medical products, both drugs and equipment alongside lower
manufacturing and design cost. The main thesis of this article was to probe the degree to which
existing opportunities in rehabilitating engineering are being exploited, including individual
studies, concepts and observations. The challenges with the use of 3D printing in rehabilitating
engineering appears to be underestimated. This problem thus calls for further study, assessing
related technologies, and devoted clinical guidelines, particularly in the case of 3D-printed
assistive technologies. This is because the utilization of such responses are usually linked to
substantial long-run disability alongside severe illness or disorders including communication and
sensory ones.
Recommendation:
In dealing with the problems associated with the 3D, this article offers a stepping stone
towards understanding how deep these problems are and calls for the separate studies to ensure

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safety when using 3D printing. This will help to effectively rehabilitate engineering and thus,
makes the clinical practice and health sciences effective.
Article 2:
Schubert, C., Van Langeveld, M. C., & Donoso, L. A. (2014). Innovations in 3D printing: a
3D overview from optics to organs. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 98(2), 159-161.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/83a5/52c32e74e380f3a4b6133b48f5736dc6ce10.pdf
Annotated Summary:
In this article, the authors undertook to the review and discuss the potential for 3D
printing in the revolutionizing manufacturing in similar manner as the printing press did to
conventional printing. The authors have presented comprehensive application alongside
restrictions of 3D printing. Also, the production process has been illustrated via the
production of a range of eyeglass frames for the blueprints of 3D. The 3D printing is held to
be helpful in medicine since the procedure has the potential of being used to make type of
organ. Thus, it is held by the authors that the use of seed substance from the tissue of the
patient, tissue rejection problem triggered by inflammatory reaction including tissue graft
against host rejection from tissue (heterologous) sources might be evaded, and the essential
for patients to take lasting immunosuppressant. The authors cites the proof of this concept
with the organs manufactured being miniature. The 3D printing thus leads to the possibility
that wholly new organs may be produced but in different shape from the parent organ. It
remains conceivable that the “pancreas” or “liver” might be generated as for instance, a tube-
shaped organ.
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This articles has presented valuable information on the potential of 3D printing in
medical practice. It is recommend that more specific research be carried out to unearth how
best 3D printing can be used to produce complex organs that can effectively mitigate the
problem of tissue rejection due to inflammatory response. The research will expand the
knowledge about the impact of 3D printing in medicine to make it an immensely helpful
technology.