This Student's Life-Changing Injury Made Him Realize How 'Outdated' Traditional Casts Are. So He 3D-Printed A Better One

This Student's Life-Changing Injury Made Him Realize How 'Outdated' Traditional Casts Are. So He 3D-Printed A Better One

This Student's Life-Changing Injury Made Him Realize How 'Outdated' Traditional Casts Are. So He 3D-Printed A Better One When Jake Inglis sustained a fracture to his back at age 17 while playing hockey, his life suddenly turned upside down. For six months, he was unable to play with his club team and spent his time ambulating with a wheelchair and doing intensive physical therapy.  Fortunately, he returned to the sport later on, but the life-changing experience lingered. “Being immobilized and going through rehab gave me a deep understanding of the frustration and isolation that patients feel,” Inglis said in a press release for Nottingham Trent University, where he is studying architecture and design.  “Being an athlete who is used to moving your body all of the time, to becoming unable to move altogether, was incredibly frustrating for me.” Morphopaedics. Photo courtesy of Jake Inglis So, Inglis invented something new: Morphopaedics.  It’s an injection-molded lattice forearm cas…