Finishing your trimlines from check socket to definitive socket.
Brodie Price
Description
Collection
Title:
Finishing your trimlines from check socket to definitive socket.
Creator:
Brodie Price
Date:
11/9/2018
Text:
Hi All,
I am just wondering how others like to finish/prepare their trimlines in the plaster models after they have filled their check socket and are ready to make the definitive socket.
For example, once you have filled your check socket and removed the socket, you are left with nice bold and thick trimlines in the plaster model. Do you surform these down completely, take them down to a certain height or leave them at full height? And do you do anything differently in your lamination process to make them rounder or smoother?
The reason I ask, is that I have been playing around leaving these trimlines at different heights and seeing how they affect the longevity of the suspension sleeve. I have noticed lately that leaving them bold can leave them cutting the suspension sleeve very easily. But they do fit nicer over the limb and reduce any pressure lines or digging in of the socket to the limb.
I have wondered whether back-filling these trimlines in between the first and second lamination with a putty etc, could reduce their sharp proud edges and save more suspensions sleeves!
Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated!
Brodie Price
CPO
SSS Prosthetics,
2/16 Casey Street, Aitkenvale,
Townsville, Australia
I am just wondering how others like to finish/prepare their trimlines in the plaster models after they have filled their check socket and are ready to make the definitive socket.
For example, once you have filled your check socket and removed the socket, you are left with nice bold and thick trimlines in the plaster model. Do you surform these down completely, take them down to a certain height or leave them at full height? And do you do anything differently in your lamination process to make them rounder or smoother?
The reason I ask, is that I have been playing around leaving these trimlines at different heights and seeing how they affect the longevity of the suspension sleeve. I have noticed lately that leaving them bold can leave them cutting the suspension sleeve very easily. But they do fit nicer over the limb and reduce any pressure lines or digging in of the socket to the limb.
I have wondered whether back-filling these trimlines in between the first and second lamination with a putty etc, could reduce their sharp proud edges and save more suspensions sleeves!
Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated!
Brodie Price
CPO
SSS Prosthetics,
2/16 Casey Street, Aitkenvale,
Townsville, Australia
Citation
Brodie Price, “Finishing your trimlines from check socket to definitive socket.,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 1, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/209215.
