Customer
Cambridge Prosthetic and Orthotic Services centre required truss for their gait analysis room
Requirements
Freestanding and stable 9m x 5m truss system that can have 14 cameras mounted to it.
Solution
Custom Quad Aluminum Truss frame is ideal for mounting cameras and lights securely
Clinical Movement Laboratory
When the Cambridge Prosthetic and Orthotic Services centre moved to a purpose built site away from the city they seized the opportunity to build their ideal movement laboratory. Their new facility now offers support for people with prosthetic limbs, with the centrepiece being a state of the art gait analysis room. Gait analysis allows the hospital to see how well a person is walking with their prosthetic limb.
Motion capture cameras help doctors analyse every aspect of a person’s gait, from how they’re standing to how they walk. This is a key part of a person’s rehabilitation therapy since it allows them to see how well a prosthetic limb fits the person and whether it is impacting their way movement in a negative way. Sometimes people will adopt compensatory movements that the limb needs to be able to accommodate, if, say, perhaps a person has a part of the residual limb function that the prosthetic needs to be adapted to reduced limb function overall that can influence their gait.
The Clinical Movement Laboratory of Cambridge University Hospital was moving to a new purpose-built location and required a new truss frame to support their equipment that comfortably fits their new space.
What was involved?
Stage Concepts was asked to specify a box truss system that measured 9m x 5m and 2.3m in height. It was to be used to mount highly-sensitive motion capture cameras, lighting, projectors, speakers and cabling.
Since the facility will serve some 3,300 patients a year of all ages and including veterans, anything that was going to be supplied needed to be of the highest quality, provide perfect stability and be discreet enough to not make the room feel oppressive, too clinical or intimidating.
This high performance aluminum truss has a 1.6mm wall thickness and was more than capable of spanning the required sizes. The round tubing made it easy for the customer to mount all cameras, lights and speakers, as well as allowing the cabling to be neatly tucked out of the way through attaching it to the truss frame, which was essential to ensure it wasn’t a trip hazard.
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The End Result
In September 2024 the facility was opened, and the client expressed their thanks to Stage Concepts for supplying such an easily assembled truss system that fitted perfectly into the space. Soon it was being used to aid those with prosthetic limbs, helping with their mobility and comfort.
