Published
PublishedSpecifications, sizing and part numbers
Every product page carries its Nord° Formula, dimensions, colour, weight, production origin and the complete part-number table, as documented.
Why Nord°
Details change the experience.
Five areas guide how a Nord° product is designed, documented and followed up. Each one starts from a question we hear in clinics, not from a claim we want to make.
01
Movement
Every degree matters.
Knee flexion, range of motion, sizing, gait, comfort, safety and independence.
- Challenge
- The last degrees of knee flexion are where users report effort: sitting down, standing up, stairs, inclines, cycling, driving.
- Why it matters
- Restriction at end range does not show up as a broken component. It shows up as a day that takes more energy than it needed to.
- Our approach
- We design thickness, conicity and textile behaviour around the movements people actually repeat, and we change one variable at a time when we test.
- Evidence
- Gait cases, mechanical tests and sizing protocols.
02
Material
Look beyond the label.
Materials should be judged on properties and behaviour, not on family names like TPE or silicone.
- Challenge
- A material family name is used as if it described performance. Two products in the same family can behave nothing alike.
- Why it matters
- Formulation, thickness, geometry and textile explain most of what a user feels. The family name explains very little.
- Our approach
- Every Nord° Formula is a defined blend with a documented purpose, paired with a specified textile and wall thickness.
- Evidence
- Formulation data, textile specification and long-term load testing.
03
User perspective
Different perspectives. One outcome.
Clinical, user and payer priorities need to be connected around a better outcome.
- Challenge
- The clinic, the user and the payer each judge the same solution against different criteria, often without a shared language.
- Why it matters
- When those criteria are not connected, a technically correct fitting can still be the wrong result for the person using it.
- Our approach
- We publish the same technical reality in three translations, so a conversation can happen instead of three parallel monologues.
- Evidence
- User interviews, clinical cases and follow-up over time.
04
Responsibility
Measure first. Claim second.
Fact-based sustainability, product-level LCA, traceability and no exaggeration.
- Challenge
- Sustainability claims are often made at company level, where they are impossible to check against the product being delivered.
- Why it matters
- A procurement decision needs product-level data with a stated boundary, not a general statement of intent.
- Our approach
- We publish product-level CO2e where an LCA is complete and say 'LCA in progress' where it is not.
- Evidence
- Product-level LCA following ISO 14040/44 principles, and material traceability.
2.43 kg CO2 eq
Nord° Liner 2.2, size M
LCA following the principles of ISO 14040/44 and Environmental Footprint 3.0.
2.11 kg CO2 eq
Nord° Sleeve 1.1, size 3
05
Knowledge
Better answers lead to better outcomes.
Troubleshooting, instructions, research and practical tools that build trust.
- Challenge
- When something does not work, the first question asked is often about the product rather than about the situation.
- Why it matters
- A better first question saves a fitting, a size change, or a month of discomfort.
- Our approach
- We publish symptom-led troubleshooting, check questions and research notes that state what a result does not show.
- Evidence
- Research notes, instructions and documented method.
Published
PublishedProduct-level CO2e
Life cycle assessment per product and size, with the method stated. Where an assessment is not complete, the page says so.
Published
PublishedPractical knowledge
Washing, sizing, donning and doffing, sleeve movement, lotion and product identification, written in the words users and clinics use.
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