SUMMARY OF RESPONSES

SUMMARY OF RESPONSES

Steven P. Chambers

As someone requested. Here is the Word file of the responses.

Steven P. Chambers

Steven:

Here at Shriner's many pediatric upper extremity amputees are using the UCLA
CAPP. However as you are now discovering, that basically between the ages of
8 to 10 the child outgrows the UCLA CAPP. At this age range, most patients
who are fitted with the UCLA CAPP terminal on their prosthesis, start
realizing that they require a more functional terminal. It is typical at
about ten years of age, the patient needs and requires more function than
the CAPP TD provides to the patient. The CAPP is a very functional TD for a
child but as the child grows older and becomes more aware of appearance, the
CAPP is not cosmetically appealing. Well, no prosthesis is cosmetically
appealing for that matter.

As you point out in your message, and I have discovered that when working
with a child, the majority of the time the parent is actually being
fitted.

As far as the adult CAPP TD, it was never manufactured on a wide scale. The
CAPP 2 as the adult version is known as never really caught on with adult
and teen patients. I think that this was because of its limited function.


Steven:

The Adult CAPP (Child Amputee Prosthetic Program) Device was developed over
fifteen years ago. The design and tooling for manufacturing was completed by
Carl Samida. Hosmer Dorrance and USMC both looked at manufacturing the
device,
but unfortunately the tooling as designed and built by Mr. Sumida would not
fit
standard manufacturing equipment. There were many prototypes made by CAPP and
test worn for field study. I do not know of the any of these devices still
being
available.

For further assistance you might try contacting Ken Driver at Fillauer or Glen
Choi at USMC.


The current incarnation of CAPP is at Shriners Hospital for Children Los
Angeles.
I have forwarded your post to.....well me! I will check and find out the
availability of the adult TE.