What is the Canfit™ P&O Design software?

The Canfit™ P&O Design system provides you with the tools to design and manufacture positive models for a wide range of P&O devices. This easy-to-use, yet powerful, program uses digitized/scanned shape data as its starting point. No changes are made to this initial shape unless you make them. This gives you, the clinician, complete control over the design process.


How does the Canfit™ P&O Design software work?

The Canfit™ suite of design tools are the most flexible and powerful available. Modifications are made directly on the 3-D computer image, in any order desired. Users can specify new circumference and radius measurements or bend angles numerically by keyboard entry or interactively on the shape, using a mouse. The software enables clinicians to bend shapes or translate portions of a shape at prescribed levels, smooth the whole shape or a defined area of a shape, modify diameter in any direction - with or without maintaining volume, and modify radius at any specific location or over any portion of the shape. The latest software supports complex AFO and scoliosis patient shapes, enabling you to make more anatomically correct modifications than ever before.

Flexible region modifications offer the ultimate in versatility for generating custom designs. These custom modifications, based on individual casting and design techniques, can be easily saved as "overlays" for future use. Users can mirror regional modifications for symmetrical shapes, specify and edit precise depth of removed or added material at various points within one region modification, and create pre-defined modifications linked to physical landmarks.

As an added benefit, you can easily quantify volume changes in the patient's shape over time. This provides excellent documentation for third party payers who request this information for approving a new orthopedic appliance.

The generic shape manipulation capabilities of the software allow successful and rapid production of upper and lower extremity sockets, body jacket positives and AFOs. The CAD/CAM process gives you the opportunity to spend more quality time with your patient, increase productivity levels, and give a professional, high-tech appearance to your business.

What do I need to get started with the Canfit™ P&O Design software?

The Canfit™ P&O Design software may easily be used in conjunction with a central fabrication facility and an associated carver.

Advantages of the Canfit™ P&O Design software

  • Versatile - proven success with lower extremity, upper extremity and body jacket shapes
  • Reduced cost - time is money
  • Fast - custom overlays of region modifications are stored for easy retrieval
  • Powerful - dynamic response in modifications tools
  • Flexible Geometry - in addition to traditional cylindrical shapes, P&O Design enables you to modify more complex shapes such as AFOs and Seats.