Struxa Foundation

Good gear should reach the people who have the least of it.

The Struxa Foundation is the charitable arm of Struxa. It exists for a simple reason: the same design and manufacturing work that goes into a splint we sell can put that splint into the hands of someone in a place where there is no supply chain to buy one from.

The Foundation brings Struxa splints to people in underserved, low-resource communities, and takes part in trips that provide medical care alongside them. It is led by Dr. Quinn Simpson, an emergency medicine physician and one of Struxa's two founders.

A red dirt road running through green scrub toward distant hills
Getting there is most of the problem.

The work

What the Foundation does

The Foundation's work is hands-on and deliberately narrow. Two things, done directly.

  • Puts splints into low-resource settings

    Splint distribution to communities where orthopedic supports are hard to obtain

    The Foundation supplies Struxa splints to people in underserved communities who would otherwise have no practical way to get one. Products designed to support and protect a finger, delivered where the supply chain does not reach.

  • Takes part in medical mission trips

    Care delivered in person, with splints as part of what is carried in

    Foundation work happens on trips that provide medical care in low-resource settings. Splints travel with the team and are handed over in person.

A pair of hands packing a small cardboard box at a desk
Splints are packed and carried in, not shipped to a warehouse and left.

Who leads it

Dr. Quinn Simpson

Co-founder, Struxa. Emergency medicine physician.

Quinn is an emergency medicine physician and a co-founder of Struxa. He heads the Struxa Foundation.

The emergency department is where you learn what people actually arrive with, and what happens when the right support is not on the shelf. Quinn has spent his career in that setting. He has also led multiple international medical mission trips, so he knows what it takes to move a team, and supplies, into a place with limited resources and get useful work done there.

That combination is why the Foundation is his. He knows how a hand should be held steady, and he knows the logistics of getting to the people who need it. He is also a national Taekwondo champion.

He grew up in Alaska with his brother Forrest, Struxa's other founder. In Alaska, gear that fails is not an inconvenience. That is the standard both brothers hold the product to, and the Foundation is where it matters most.

  • Emergency medicine physicianCareer spent seeing what actually walks through the door.
  • Has led multiple international medical mission tripsKnows the logistics of delivering care in low-resource settings.
  • Co-founder of StruxaHeads the Struxa Foundation.

Why this exists

The Foundation is not a side project. It is the point.

Struxa was started to make people's lives better and more comfortable, using the most advanced design and manufacturing techniques available.

Read that mission plainly and the Foundation follows from it. If the goal is to make people's lives better through technology, then the people with the least access to that technology are the ones the mission points at hardest. A splint that only ever reaches customers who can already buy one is a smaller version of the idea.

  • The mission comes first

    That is why the company exists: better lives, more comfort, through the most advanced design and manufacturing techniques available. The Foundation is that mission applied where the need is greatest.

  • Access is the hard part

    Engineering a better support is one problem. Getting it to someone with no way to buy it is a different one. The Foundation exists to work on the second.

  • The splints are the beginning

    Finger splints are the first product. As the platform grows, the Foundation's work grows with it.

Two people clasping hands in a supportive grip, one older and one younger
The mission, read plainly, points hardest at the people with the least access.

Get in touch

If you work in this space, we would like to hear from you.

The Foundation grows through people who are already doing this work. Clinicians heading somewhere with a team. Organizations running care in low-resource settings. Anyone who can help get splints to the people who need them.

We are not asking for money here. We are asking for conversations: where the need is, who is already on the ground, and how Struxa can be useful to them.

Write to us and tell us what you do and where you work. A short note is enough to start.

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