Description
Innovation The Embrace is unique of its kind and it is a sock-like shoe that could be worn easily. It has intelligent fibers running across the knee and calf muscle that can contract and expand while leading to sustained stretching among the kids. The fibers receive inputs from the forefoot when the foot touches the ground and that sensory input goes on the calf battery where electrical stimulation makes the fiber rigid or flexible to assist walking.
Kids suffering from Foot Equinus experience imbalance/uncontrolled movement and a neurological disconnect of brain-to-foot signal.
The problem of imbalance restricts the user from walking naturally and puts immense pressure on the toe leading to in-toeing and jerky strides. This is also a result of the left side of the brain being unable to send signals to the right foot and vice versa leading to loss of sensation in the heel of the foot.
Product Detail Embrace is a vision for the future of the footwear medical industry. It’s a speculative design approach to enhanced mobility for Cerebral Palsy kids suffering from Foot Equinus. The condition of Equinus leads to imbalance of gait and in-toeing of the foot making walking difficult. Embrace approaches this condition with an adaptive brace which allows muscle stimulation on imbalanced movement while facilitating natural gait through posture control toe to heel mechanism. Embrace aims to achieve faster therapy and ankle foot brace recovery for kids suffering from Equinus while conditioning them to embrace their inability into capabilities.
Bio VC started in India with a passion for footwear. Learning the craftsmanship from parts of India, VC came to the US to study Footwear Design with Pensole Academy which led him to master the art and craft as a Product Designer at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit,
VC interned with Fila India, Puma, and Adidas US and was mentored by some of the greatest creatives, like Dr.Dwayne Edwards, Marc Dolce, Jayson Mayden, Yassine, Omar Bailey, and many more.
