#knee-osteoarthritis

#knee-osteoarthritis

There's something quietly radical about designing for pain. Not the dramatic, cinematic kind, but the daily grind of chronic discomfort that shapes how millions of people move through their lives. That's exactly what Madhav Binu, Kriti V, and Himvall Sindhu set out to tackle with Revive, a home-based rehabilitation device for knee osteoarthritis patients. The numbers tell a sobering story. Forty percent of India's elderly population lives with knee osteoarthritis, a condition that doesn't just hurt.

It carries most of the weight of the body, and being a hinge joint, it means that it doesn't have a nice socket structure, says physiotherapist Dr Jillian Eyles, from the University of Sydney. It relies on the ligaments and the joint capsules and the muscles around it to really stabilise the joint, and it's fairly easy to injure compared to another joint that's more supported.