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INNOSAFETY, IMPROVING SAFETY THROUGH INNOVATION

IMPROVING SAFETY THROUGH INNOVATION

At INNOSAFETY, a Dutch company focusing on safety and injury prevention, we believe that we can improve safety of the hand during sporting and working activities by truly understanding the function of the hand and the potential injuries due to forces.

OUR DRIVE IS TO PUSH FORWARD

Our drive is simple; we believe that the hand is of pivotal importance during almost all handling in sports as in daily life. We are aware that the hand is under-protected during sports. Therefore this product. Prevention is better than cure.

OUR MISSION IS TO PROTECT

Our mission is to protect the hand against forces by translating medical science, our knowledge on injury mechanisms and technical skills into prototypes suitable for commercially viable products. We want you hand to be safe and protected against forces.

OUR INVENTION: PATENTED THUMB PROTECTION TECHNOLOGY

Various devices have been designed in order to reduce the incidence of and the risk on getting a "skier's thumb" in ski accidents. Adjustments to the ski pole and pole clipping (like pole clipping directly into the glove) or strapless poles were developed. The theory that losing the pole before the skier will hit the ground (without the pole in the hand), and therefore the mechanism of the pole forcing the thumb outwards is excluded will reduce theoretically the risk on UCL injuries. Nevertheless the skier or snowboarder will hit the surface with high velocity (high energy trauma). If the hand is stretched out (natural reflex) the skier still has a significant chance that the thumb will be forced outwards due to hitting the ground, resulting in a fracture or UCL injury. Our product can solve this issue and will be sold worldwide by Level Gloves, starting Autumn 2016.

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QUOTE

After injuring my own thumb in 2012 I realized the fragility and function of the thumb and hand. Allmost all handling in daily life got impaired after the injury. I started my search for a protection device and found out that there were no such things on the market. So I started to develop a protection device which protects the thumb without interfering the function and tactility of the thumb. In cooperation with Zautsen Industrial Design and Level Gloves we created the ultimate thumb protection. ~ Casper Smit

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

Chirurg Casper Smit liep drie jaar geleden een 'ski-duim' op. Maanden was hij uit de roulatie. Dit nooit meer, dacht hij. En zo ontpopte de Delftse arts zich tot uitvinder. Zijn duimbeschermer ligt volgend seizoen in de winkels. Denk je ski-ongeval, dan denk je been in het gips. Maar er is een letsel dat vaker voorkomt en misschien wel vervelender is: de zogenoemde ski-duim. Chirurg Casper Smit van het Delftse Reinier de Graaf ziekenhuis kan daarover meepraten. De arts verwondde drie jaar geleden zelf zijn duim bij het skiën. Click here to read more

THE INVENTION

Hand injuries in general tend to be disregarded by both patients and doctors until it happens to oneself.
Never was this more the case than in thumb injuries, as the importance of the thumb is usually underappreciated until it is injured.

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SKI THUMB PREVENTION

Various devices have been designed in order to reduce the incidence of and the risk on getting a "skier's thumb" in ski accidents. Adjustments to the ski pole and pole clipping (like pole clipping directly into the glove) or strapless poles were developed.

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INNOSAFETY

Casper Smit MD PhD
caspersmit@innosafety.nl

Bart van Dijk MSc
bartvandijk@innosafety.nl

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