Fw: "compensator socks?"
JAMES MCCOY
Description
Collection
Title:
Fw: "compensator socks?"
Creator:
JAMES MCCOY
Date:
4/6/2010
Text:
--- On Tue, 4/6/10, JAMES MCCOY < <Email Address Redacted> > wrote:
> From: JAMES MCCOY < <Email Address Redacted> >
> Subject: Fw: compensator socks?
> To: <Email Address Redacted>
> Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 3:23 PM
>
>
> --- On Tue, 4/6/10, JAMES MCCOY < <Email Address Redacted> >
> wrote:
>
> > From: JAMES MCCOY < <Email Address Redacted> >
> > Subject: compensator socks?
> > To: oanp listserve < <Email Address Redacted> >
> > Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 2:44 PM
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I received an order from our local VA prosthetic
> clinic for
> > compensator socks for a patient with bilateral
> transtibial
> > prostheses. He currently wears gel locking liners (6mm
> thick
> > distally & 3mm thick proximally). He is having
> some
> > pressure sores develope over the distal residual
> tibias due
> > to changing residual limb volume. He is an elderly
> > individual who sits most of the time. His prostheses
> are
> > primarily for transfer purposes, but he can ambulate
> short
> > distances when needed. I suspect what is being
> requested are
> > fitting socks of shorter/varying lengths to provide
> for
> > distal volume loss in his residual limbs. I suspect
> this
> > because both sockets fit well proximally and any
> additional
> > sock material will make them too tight proximally. I
> would
> > normally call and request more detailed information
> from the
> > VA clinic team, but they are not easily contacted (my
> > experience is they don't answer phone calls or return
> them).
> > The patient informs me that he was
> > told the compensator socks were made so they
> were
> > thicker distally and thinner proximally. I'm
> unfamiliar with
> > these socks and not sure the information I received
> is
> > accurate. So my questions are: are these compensator
> socks
> > simply fitting socks cut to varying lengths, or are
> they a
> > specific type that are made to be thicker distally? If
> so,
> > who manufactures and/or distributes them?
> >
> > James McCoy, C.P., L.P., FAAOP
> >
>
> From: JAMES MCCOY < <Email Address Redacted> >
> Subject: Fw: compensator socks?
> To: <Email Address Redacted>
> Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 3:23 PM
>
>
> --- On Tue, 4/6/10, JAMES MCCOY < <Email Address Redacted> >
> wrote:
>
> > From: JAMES MCCOY < <Email Address Redacted> >
> > Subject: compensator socks?
> > To: oanp listserve < <Email Address Redacted> >
> > Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 2:44 PM
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I received an order from our local VA prosthetic
> clinic for
> > compensator socks for a patient with bilateral
> transtibial
> > prostheses. He currently wears gel locking liners (6mm
> thick
> > distally & 3mm thick proximally). He is having
> some
> > pressure sores develope over the distal residual
> tibias due
> > to changing residual limb volume. He is an elderly
> > individual who sits most of the time. His prostheses
> are
> > primarily for transfer purposes, but he can ambulate
> short
> > distances when needed. I suspect what is being
> requested are
> > fitting socks of shorter/varying lengths to provide
> for
> > distal volume loss in his residual limbs. I suspect
> this
> > because both sockets fit well proximally and any
> additional
> > sock material will make them too tight proximally. I
> would
> > normally call and request more detailed information
> from the
> > VA clinic team, but they are not easily contacted (my
> > experience is they don't answer phone calls or return
> them).
> > The patient informs me that he was
> > told the compensator socks were made so they
> were
> > thicker distally and thinner proximally. I'm
> unfamiliar with
> > these socks and not sure the information I received
> is
> > accurate. So my questions are: are these compensator
> socks
> > simply fitting socks cut to varying lengths, or are
> they a
> > specific type that are made to be thicker distally? If
> so,
> > who manufactures and/or distributes them?
> >
> > James McCoy, C.P., L.P., FAAOP
> >
>
Citation
JAMES MCCOY, “Fw: "compensator socks?",” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 6, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/231365.
