Challanging Transfemoral Fitting!!!
john j. johnston
Description
Collection
Title:
Challanging Transfemoral Fitting!!!
Creator:
john j. johnston
Date:
5/19/2000
Text:
Hello!
I am in the process of fitting a 50ish yr. male who has been and
tranfemoral amputee for 17 yrs. He is 270 lbs....very active business
man...golfs, boats around water all the time. He has a very long
residual limb with excess redundent tissue.
He currently is wearing a Quad partial suction socket with a exoskeletal
single axis (OWW) with a Mauch unit and a Griessinger foot.
We are manufacturing him a new prosthesis with the following components
Quad socket partial suction because he doesn't want to
change...exoskeletal OWW single axis knee unit with a Mauch system...
and a Flex Walk foot.
His goals for the prosthesis is to have it lighter and water proof for
his boating sports and mobility for golf but also the wearability for an
18 hour day working business man.
So the variables involved are;
1.excessive tissue
2. residual limb is long so a alignment jig is impossible to put between
the socket and the knee axis...actually I have to move the socket
Anterior to the KC and flex the socket to obtain the proper length from
Knee Center to IT
3. aligning the prosthesis properly so the Mauch unit functions
efficently
My challange is the alignment of the prosthesis with these components
and variables!
Anyone have any suggestions!
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.;)
Mary-Jayne Johnston C.P. (c)
I am in the process of fitting a 50ish yr. male who has been and
tranfemoral amputee for 17 yrs. He is 270 lbs....very active business
man...golfs, boats around water all the time. He has a very long
residual limb with excess redundent tissue.
He currently is wearing a Quad partial suction socket with a exoskeletal
single axis (OWW) with a Mauch unit and a Griessinger foot.
We are manufacturing him a new prosthesis with the following components
Quad socket partial suction because he doesn't want to
change...exoskeletal OWW single axis knee unit with a Mauch system...
and a Flex Walk foot.
His goals for the prosthesis is to have it lighter and water proof for
his boating sports and mobility for golf but also the wearability for an
18 hour day working business man.
So the variables involved are;
1.excessive tissue
2. residual limb is long so a alignment jig is impossible to put between
the socket and the knee axis...actually I have to move the socket
Anterior to the KC and flex the socket to obtain the proper length from
Knee Center to IT
3. aligning the prosthesis properly so the Mauch unit functions
efficently
My challange is the alignment of the prosthesis with these components
and variables!
Anyone have any suggestions!
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.;)
Mary-Jayne Johnston C.P. (c)
Citation
john j. johnston, “Challanging Transfemoral Fitting!!!,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 7, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/214032.
