Who Are Donjoy and What Makes Their Knee Supports and Braces So Special?
Donjoy are based in California in the USA, and are manufacturers of knee supports and braces such as the Donjoy Armor, Donjoy 4Titude, Donjoy Legend and Donjoy ACL Everyday. The technology Donjoy use to create their braces is constantly evolving to meet the diverse needs of modern sports and activities. The development of a Donjoy brace requires extensive strength, functional and cycle testing of all materials and components. Donjoy use their Biomechanics Laboratory to develop their braces by using a robotic knee. This was vital in the development of the Donjoy 4-Points-Of-Leverage system. The robotic knee uses pneumatically actuated cables to simulate various states of the human knee providing a testing environment for the different loads and positions a knee may be subjected to. The robotic knee is able to simulate loads that vary from the swing phase of gait, where very little load is going through a joint, up to the massive compressive loads which are forced across a joint when com
