MORE UCLA CAPP RESPONSES
Steven P. Chambers
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MORE UCLA CAPP RESPONSES
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Steven P. Chambers
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Responses to my question are still coming in and I appreciate the responses/
Steven P. Chambers
Subj: Re: UCLA CAPP TD
Date: 3/6/00 12:47:57 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: <Email Address Redacted> (Gerry Stark)
To: <Email Address Redacted>
Steven,
Hosmer still sells quite a few CAPP TD's. The advantage of this system is
that it requires less effort to open the spring loaded system. It is more
appealing to the parents and it has an outside and inside pull. It can be
used as an interim passive device until the prosthesis is activated. The
rubber grip surface adapts to many shapes. The disadvantages are that the
hand does block objects from view more than a hook and it has nominal grip
strength. Also a hand is still more appealing cosmetically.
All in all it is not a bad functional option.
Gerry Stark, CP
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Subj: CAPP TD
Date: 3/6/00 9:34:14 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: <Email Address Redacted> (Toshie)
Reply-to: <A HREF=mailto:<Email Address Redacted>> <Email Address Redacted> </A>
To: <Email Address Redacted>
To: Steven P. Chambers
FROM: Yoshio Setoguchi, M.D.
Shriners Hospital for Children, Los Angeles
Your inquiry regarding the CAPP terminal device for upper extremity
prosthesis was referred from Northwestern University to the Shriners
Hospital, Los Angeles. The CAPP T.D. was developed at the UCLA Child
Amputee Prosthetics Project. Following is some information on both CAPP
T.D. #1 and #2.
CAPP T.D. #2 was designed for adolescent and adult amputees. The CAPP
T.D. #1 can be used for patients up to the ages of 10 - 12 yewars
dependding on the size of the child.
Please call Joanna Patton, O.T.R. or Anthony Ellis, C.P. at
(213)368-3374 for more information.
========================================
Subj: CAPP TD
Date: 3/7/00 1:33:52 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: <Email Address Redacted> (Julie Shaperman)
To: <Email Address Redacted>
I heard from Adrian Polliack that you are interested int he CAPP TD. It is
manufactured and sold by Hosmer-Dorrance and is still widely used in some
clinics. The trend toward myo hands has decreased its popularity but many
kids do bettter with a lightweight, robust device than the more expensive,
heavy, though better looking myo; hands. The CAPP TD was intended for
children from 1-8 years of age and comes in negroid and causasian colors. It
looks best when fitted with a center-pull line so there is no
mechanical-looking cable. Also, this makes wrist friction adjustments less
critical and chidren learn to pre-position sooner with a looser wrist unit
that doesn't spin when they put tension on the cable. The TD is best applied
with a 1 1/2 diameter wrist unit so the TD+forearm look like a continuous
unit with no mis-match at the wrist. Families can change covers at home, and
many families in rural areas have learned to change the control line (braided
dacron) themselves so there is little or no down time for the child. The
device was intended to look less menacing than a hook and to suggest a
general contour of a hand in a grasping position - although obviously it
doesn't look like a hand. Lots of kids have liked them but they eventually
need more grip force than even the strongest spring Hosmer sells and they
change then to a different TD. A second size CAPP TD was designed and one
run was produced, but no manufacturer would pick it up because it would suit
teenagers and they tend to want hands at that age. There are still about a
dozen adults wearing the Size #2 CAPP TD - those are available from CAPP at
Shriners Hopsital in Los Angeles (3160 Geneva Street, Los Angeles, CA 90020).
Let me know if you have other questions about the CAPP device... Julie
Shaperman <Email Address Redacted>
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Steven P. Chambers
Subj: Re: UCLA CAPP TD
Date: 3/6/00 12:47:57 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: <Email Address Redacted> (Gerry Stark)
To: <Email Address Redacted>
Steven,
Hosmer still sells quite a few CAPP TD's. The advantage of this system is
that it requires less effort to open the spring loaded system. It is more
appealing to the parents and it has an outside and inside pull. It can be
used as an interim passive device until the prosthesis is activated. The
rubber grip surface adapts to many shapes. The disadvantages are that the
hand does block objects from view more than a hook and it has nominal grip
strength. Also a hand is still more appealing cosmetically.
All in all it is not a bad functional option.
Gerry Stark, CP
=================================
Subj: CAPP TD
Date: 3/6/00 9:34:14 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: <Email Address Redacted> (Toshie)
Reply-to: <A HREF=mailto:<Email Address Redacted>> <Email Address Redacted> </A>
To: <Email Address Redacted>
To: Steven P. Chambers
FROM: Yoshio Setoguchi, M.D.
Shriners Hospital for Children, Los Angeles
Your inquiry regarding the CAPP terminal device for upper extremity
prosthesis was referred from Northwestern University to the Shriners
Hospital, Los Angeles. The CAPP T.D. was developed at the UCLA Child
Amputee Prosthetics Project. Following is some information on both CAPP
T.D. #1 and #2.
CAPP T.D. #2 was designed for adolescent and adult amputees. The CAPP
T.D. #1 can be used for patients up to the ages of 10 - 12 yewars
dependding on the size of the child.
Please call Joanna Patton, O.T.R. or Anthony Ellis, C.P. at
(213)368-3374 for more information.
========================================
Subj: CAPP TD
Date: 3/7/00 1:33:52 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: <Email Address Redacted> (Julie Shaperman)
To: <Email Address Redacted>
I heard from Adrian Polliack that you are interested int he CAPP TD. It is
manufactured and sold by Hosmer-Dorrance and is still widely used in some
clinics. The trend toward myo hands has decreased its popularity but many
kids do bettter with a lightweight, robust device than the more expensive,
heavy, though better looking myo; hands. The CAPP TD was intended for
children from 1-8 years of age and comes in negroid and causasian colors. It
looks best when fitted with a center-pull line so there is no
mechanical-looking cable. Also, this makes wrist friction adjustments less
critical and chidren learn to pre-position sooner with a looser wrist unit
that doesn't spin when they put tension on the cable. The TD is best applied
with a 1 1/2 diameter wrist unit so the TD+forearm look like a continuous
unit with no mis-match at the wrist. Families can change covers at home, and
many families in rural areas have learned to change the control line (braided
dacron) themselves so there is little or no down time for the child. The
device was intended to look less menacing than a hook and to suggest a
general contour of a hand in a grasping position - although obviously it
doesn't look like a hand. Lots of kids have liked them but they eventually
need more grip force than even the strongest spring Hosmer sells and they
change then to a different TD. A second size CAPP TD was designed and one
run was produced, but no manufacturer would pick it up because it would suit
teenagers and they tend to want hands at that age. There are still about a
dozen adults wearing the Size #2 CAPP TD - those are available from CAPP at
Shriners Hopsital in Los Angeles (3160 Geneva Street, Los Angeles, CA 90020).
Let me know if you have other questions about the CAPP device... Julie
Shaperman <Email Address Redacted>
================
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To unsubscribe, send a message to: <Email Address Redacted> with
the words UNSUB OANDP-L in the body of the
message.
If you have a problem unsubscribing,or have other
questions, send e-mail to the moderator
Paul E. Prusakowski,CPO at <Email Address Redacted>
OANDP-L is a forum for the discussion of topics
related to Orthotics and Prosthetics.
Public commercial postings are forbidden. Responses to inquiries
should not be sent to the entire oandp-l list.
Citation
Steven P. Chambers, “MORE UCLA CAPP RESPONSES,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 5, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/213871.
