9 products found
Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) Products
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Prosthesis
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Below-Knee Prosthesis
The below-knee prosthesis of BMVSS has been designed indigenously. The shank is fabricated from locally manufactured, durable, high-quality, high-density polyethylene pipes (HDPE). The socket design used is either total contact, which is vacuum-formed using a polypropylene sheet, or open-ended, using HDPE. This custom-made shank / socket is fitted with the Jaipur Foot. A functional below-knee prosthesis looks like a normal limb, allowing for the ...
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Above-Knee Prosthesis
The above-knee prosthesis is indigenously designed and fabricated from locally manufactured high-quality, high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes. The sockets used are of both ischial bearing and ischial containment types. The knee joints are available in a variety of designs. Single axis knee joint with lock. Single axis knee joint without lock. Stanford-Jaipur Knee. Stanford-Jaipur Knee with lock. The Stanford Knee joint is replacing other joint ...
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Stanford-Jaipur Knee
The Stanford-Jaipur Knee is a new invention designed by the Stanford University, USA, working with the BMVSS team. The Stanford-Jaipur Knee has been hailed by Time magazine (issue of November 23, 2009) as one of the 50 Best Inventions of the World in the year 2009. The Stanford-Jaipur Knee, also known as the Jaipur Knee, mimics normal human gait by providing stability in stance and easy movement. The Jaipur knee is based on the polycentric ...
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Calipers
Calipers are devices that enable people with motor disabilities — including polio-afflicted patients — to walk and thereby remain mobile. While polio has been eradicated from India and as such there are no new polio cases detected, patients with polio continue to throng BMVSS to get calipers ...
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Artificial Hand
Currently, the artificial hand has been undertaken from suppliers who make joints meeting the Indian Standards Institutions (ISI) mark. It is called the Jaipur Hand. BMVSS mainly fabricates the sockets. Now, a major research project on below-elbow artificial hand is underway in Stanford University in collaboration with BMVSS. The model is likely to be functionally more efficient and inexpensive. Bio-Electrical Artificial Hand is being developed by ...
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Other Mobility Aids
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Hand-Pedalled Tricycles
Patients who have lost both their feet or have lost mobility of their lower limbs due to polio or other reasons have to crawl or be carried around. Hand-pedalled tricycles, with the Indian Standard Institute mark, provided by BMVSS free of cost enable them to move around independently and with ...Wheelchairs
A special wheelchair cum pedalled tricycle developed by MIT USA with BMVSS as a partner is particularly useful for off-road undulated terrains, mostly for paraplegic patients, bilateral amputees and bilateral polio patients. Field trials have given a positive feedback. The wheelchairs of the design of World Health Organisation are also being fabricated & supplied to patients particularly those suffering from ...Crutches
BMVSS provides crutches to needy people with disabilities. The crutches have ISI certification from the Bureau of Indian Standards of the Government of ...Hearing Aids
On a small scale, hearing aids are also being provided to patients suffering mainly from profound hearing ...