TT and scar tissue
Richard Z
Description
Collection
Title:
TT and scar tissue
Creator:
Richard Z
Date:
8/25/2005
Text:
Anyone got any clues as to the most forgiving gel/silicon liner for a trans-tib with gross scarring from burns and split-skin grafts?
This has been discussed here in various forms before but I have a fifty+ plus year old gent with extensive burn and graft scars all over his residuum. He has managed very well with a pelite liner and waist band suspension for over twenty years but I would love to be able to give him the freedom of a less cumbersome suspension. I have recently tried him with a Silipos locking gel liner and he lasted a week before he felt that the shear forces were stressing his stump too much.
Any clues?
Richard Ziegeler (P&O Australia)
This has been discussed here in various forms before but I have a fifty+ plus year old gent with extensive burn and graft scars all over his residuum. He has managed very well with a pelite liner and waist band suspension for over twenty years but I would love to be able to give him the freedom of a less cumbersome suspension. I have recently tried him with a Silipos locking gel liner and he lasted a week before he felt that the shear forces were stressing his stump too much.
Any clues?
Richard Ziegeler (P&O Australia)
Citation
Richard Z, “TT and scar tissue,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 2, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/225329.
