Omega Scanner

Omega Scanner

Spencer Doty

1/6/2009

Hello,
 
I am a relatively new user to the Omega Scanning system through OWW. I'm looking to hear from real world users of the system, specifically in regards to the following questions:
 
BK's
 
After taking the initial scan of a TT amputee, does anyone add in their 5 degrees flexion/adduction at the alignment screen? It seems like the software wants you to align the model straight up and down, but if you do this and follow the socket wizard, your posterior shelf addition won't take into account the adduction/flexion angles, nor will a distal attachment add-on.
 
Are practitioners just leaving everything straight up and down and getting their angular adjustments from endo components (slides and tube clamps etc)?
 
We'd like to have a CFab finish the prosthesis after we've performed our check socket fittings, but we're not sure how to best relay to the CFab what the final alignment of the px was. It seems like unless we send the actual check socket with alignment components attached, we're out of luck. Any tips?
 
AFO's
 
We've found that hand scanning a bivalved fiberglass mold seems to work best. We've tried the black board with dots as a background as recommended by OWW at a course, but we seem to get the best results scanning with the bivalved half of the cast in our hands. With either method, we can quite seem to get the 2 halves to match up perfectly, so it requires extra work to clean up the model. We really only take corrective casts, so scanning the patients limb directly over the foam box isn't an option for us, and scanning the outside of a cast seems to create a lack of definition on the limb, plus the thickness of fiberglass varies up and down the cast.
 
Does anyone have any tips for scanning AFO's in this manner?
 
Thanks so much!
 
Regards,
 
Spencer Doty, CPO
Certified Prosthetist & Orthotist
 
Active Life, Inc.
Humanity Through Technology
Phone: 818-243-1700
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