🔴 Tiger’s Red-Hot Innovator of the Week – Startup ushers in the Future of Joint Preservation with 3D-Printed, Lightweight Off-Loading Devices

Every Monday I share a startup that I really. I call it the Red-Hot Innovator of the Week.

For decades, the bracing market has been defined by the same frustrating tradeoffs: heavy, off-the-shelf plastic molds, clunky metal hinges, and rigid shells that slide down the leg and end up living in the back of a patient’s closet. Last week on BoneChat, we sat down for an incredible deep dive with Evan Eckersley, co-founder of Icarus Medical Innovations (you can watch the full discussion here: How Icarus Medical is Changing Joint Preservation with 3D Printing.

Evan walked the BoneChat community through the business and laid out exactly how they are quietly killing it. Then Evan gave us a live tour of their Virginia production facility. Without relying on heavy early VC money, this team has fundamentally changed the joint preservation game by replacing heavy hardware with a cloud-automated, 3D-printed biomechanical unloading ecosystem. I’ve been talking with this team, co-founded by CEO Dave Johnson and Evan, for five years. They are solving the massive joint pain and compliance problem with custom wearables that look like high-end aerospace engineering ...