Total surface bearing self suspending above-knee sockets/1
- 1 December 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Prosthetics and Orthotics International
- Vol. 3 (3) , 126-136
- https://doi.org/10.3109/03093647909103096
Abstract
Er they will behave under load as an elastic solid with low stiffness. A method has been devised for taking the cast for the new type socket using an elastic sleeve as a “compliant socket”. The grip of the elastic sleeve and the use of traction weights deform the stump tissues to the required shape while the cast is setting. The results of laboratory measurements of the transinterface pressures in these sockets under axial loading conditions have correlated well with the figures forecast by calculation. The new socket is now available to patients at a number of Centres in England....Keywords
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