Whose Zero-Based Mammography?
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Collection
Title:
Whose Zero-Based Mammography?
Date:
3/8/1998
Text:
One fine day, Ted Trower responded to Joe Harvey:
JH> You got me on the Xeroradiography. But the graphics look great!
Joe---please know amputees are interested in what you see and how great
it looks, but...some of us have considerations beyond looks...tho it is
indeed grand to look great...
TT> Xeroradiography is an x-ray technique that uses photo paper instead
of the usual transparency film. It is a superior technique for
visualizing soft tissue structures.
Back when I was an amputee of some 12 years I was auditioning Nashville
prosthetists to determine who I was going to select to make my next
prosthesis. I had been a R) BK trauma since '69 and knew I wanted
someone who would discuss socket fit with me and convince me that their
method of making a socket was A-number-one.
I wandered into Dillard Prosthetics and met Chuck, who told me that YO!,
we're using zero base mammography to check stump-socket interface (not
in those words, exactly) and you oughta try it, which I did. Casting
done, test socket, over to Parkview (then HCA's [now Columbia/HCA{check
Tennessee State Prison for current standing} lil flagship hospital)
where they used the same x-ray technique on my interface that was then
primarily used to check for abnormalities in soft tissue---a breast.
Checked out the blue photos. Cool. Could see where my soft tissue met
the rubber on the road, and could also see where it did not work, which
was of greater interest to me than where it did. I liked (and bloody
well expected) a degree of comfort and I owned a certain allergy to
pain....
TT> It also utilizes as much as eight times as much x-ray exposure as a
conventional x-ray.
For what duration?
TT> For this reason it is rejected as a fitting technique by many
responsible physicians.
You know Ted, I have yet to meet a physician who knows as much as the
prosthetists I have met and so I do not, in my maddest flights of fancy,
think I give a tinker's damn what the physician thinks about my ability
to judge for myself who should be making decisions about what technique
is best applied to insure I have a decent fit. Who truly should be
making these decisions? What do 'responsible physicians' know about
fitting my stump to a socket? Please, quickly, introduce me to these
physicians.
Please allow me to introduce myself,
I'm a man of wealth and fame....
----The Rolling Stones
Sympathy For The Devil
TT> It must be remembered that x-ray exposure dosage is calculated as a
lifetime total. Not by individual events.
Really....Look. In order to obtain a good fitting socket, one that
permits me to become more mobile with less pain, than I do not, nor do I
think I will ever, give a hoot about some arbitrary dosage of
Roentgens,. What I do care about it obvious....give me a prosthetist who
knows a thing or two, who gives a damn about doing good work, and we
will worry about dosages later....when my kidneys evaporate from some
dosage of something...
Just a tip from an old gimp:
Wayne Renardson
BTW Ted: Those trees are killing Kennedys, and my heart simply will
not....no, cannot, deal with another one...
JH> You got me on the Xeroradiography. But the graphics look great!
Joe---please know amputees are interested in what you see and how great
it looks, but...some of us have considerations beyond looks...tho it is
indeed grand to look great...
TT> Xeroradiography is an x-ray technique that uses photo paper instead
of the usual transparency film. It is a superior technique for
visualizing soft tissue structures.
Back when I was an amputee of some 12 years I was auditioning Nashville
prosthetists to determine who I was going to select to make my next
prosthesis. I had been a R) BK trauma since '69 and knew I wanted
someone who would discuss socket fit with me and convince me that their
method of making a socket was A-number-one.
I wandered into Dillard Prosthetics and met Chuck, who told me that YO!,
we're using zero base mammography to check stump-socket interface (not
in those words, exactly) and you oughta try it, which I did. Casting
done, test socket, over to Parkview (then HCA's [now Columbia/HCA{check
Tennessee State Prison for current standing} lil flagship hospital)
where they used the same x-ray technique on my interface that was then
primarily used to check for abnormalities in soft tissue---a breast.
Checked out the blue photos. Cool. Could see where my soft tissue met
the rubber on the road, and could also see where it did not work, which
was of greater interest to me than where it did. I liked (and bloody
well expected) a degree of comfort and I owned a certain allergy to
pain....
TT> It also utilizes as much as eight times as much x-ray exposure as a
conventional x-ray.
For what duration?
TT> For this reason it is rejected as a fitting technique by many
responsible physicians.
You know Ted, I have yet to meet a physician who knows as much as the
prosthetists I have met and so I do not, in my maddest flights of fancy,
think I give a tinker's damn what the physician thinks about my ability
to judge for myself who should be making decisions about what technique
is best applied to insure I have a decent fit. Who truly should be
making these decisions? What do 'responsible physicians' know about
fitting my stump to a socket? Please, quickly, introduce me to these
physicians.
Please allow me to introduce myself,
I'm a man of wealth and fame....
----The Rolling Stones
Sympathy For The Devil
TT> It must be remembered that x-ray exposure dosage is calculated as a
lifetime total. Not by individual events.
Really....Look. In order to obtain a good fitting socket, one that
permits me to become more mobile with less pain, than I do not, nor do I
think I will ever, give a hoot about some arbitrary dosage of
Roentgens,. What I do care about it obvious....give me a prosthetist who
knows a thing or two, who gives a damn about doing good work, and we
will worry about dosages later....when my kidneys evaporate from some
dosage of something...
Just a tip from an old gimp:
Wayne Renardson
BTW Ted: Those trees are killing Kennedys, and my heart simply will
not....no, cannot, deal with another one...
Citation
“Whose Zero-Based Mammography?,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 1, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/210518.
