Heat and Acrylic sockets
Richard Ziegeler
Description
Collection
Title:
Heat and Acrylic sockets
Creator:
Richard Ziegeler
Date:
1/27/2005
Text:
This one that I haven't had to deal with before. I have used a central fab facility in the distant Capital city (Melbourne Australia). Recently, the weather here has been quite hot, but not unusually so. When I received the latest socket back from the central fab folks by road courier, it was unbelievably distorted, in fact it was flat! My only guess is that the parcel had sat in the back of the truck for some time and the oven-like heat had softened the acrylic resin!
Apart from wondering what happens to the contents of other parcels, I have wondered what to do to rectify the socket. Only a test fit will tell me if my efforts to resoften the socket with gentle heat and relying on some memory in the polymer have been successful.
This may serve as a warning for other practitioners in similar situations. The couriers don't know (or care). Richard Ziegeler P&O
Apart from wondering what happens to the contents of other parcels, I have wondered what to do to rectify the socket. Only a test fit will tell me if my efforts to resoften the socket with gentle heat and relying on some memory in the polymer have been successful.
This may serve as a warning for other practitioners in similar situations. The couriers don't know (or care). Richard Ziegeler P&O
Citation
Richard Ziegeler, “Heat and Acrylic sockets,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 24, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/224153.
