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We saw our first patient already during our trip last year and were very excited to meet him again. Unfortunately he has some trouble with sensitive spots on his stump and phantom pain, which makes it hard for him to…

On the 24th of March Johannes travelled alone to Kisubi, near Kampala, in Uganda. It was quite a challenge, but he managed everything very well. The next day, he visited CoRSU for the first time and introduced himself to everyone.…

On May 18, we outfitted young Elvis with his customized hand prosthesis. A big plus of 3D-printing is that every print can be individual. In this case, to meet the needs for his stump shape, we customized the prothesis by…

At Enevra, our mission is to develop a reliable 3D-printing framework that can be adopted by local orthopedic and medical professionals to provide affordable prostheses to their patients. Our goal is to provide this framework to Enevra-partners in low-income countries.…

When set up properly, 3D printing is a robust and reliable process. But in the first days in Uganda we struggled with our initial prints due to the instable power grid. The outages resulted in failed prints that stopped mid-way.…