Archiving shape and alignment with CAD
Zzharv
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Title:
Archiving shape and alignment with CAD
Creator:
Zzharv
Date:
9/16/2010
Text:
I'm wondering if anyone has figured out a way to precisely capture socket shape AND alignment in order to streamline the process in this common scenario:
Patient walks in test socket for several days or weeks and both heat modifications and alignment changes are made. Patient and prosthetist decide that time is right to finalize project and change to carbon fiber. The socket is poured up in a vertical jig and in the worst case scenerio, if the shape is bulbous, such with many symes or KD's, the test socket has to be cut off. This forces the patient to perhaps go back to wearing an older ill-fitting socket and wait a at least a few days for the definitive socket to be complete.
Anyone have success in digitizing a socket to capture both shape and alignment. If so, is there a central fab facility that you find works well?
Thanks in advance, Zach
Patient walks in test socket for several days or weeks and both heat modifications and alignment changes are made. Patient and prosthetist decide that time is right to finalize project and change to carbon fiber. The socket is poured up in a vertical jig and in the worst case scenerio, if the shape is bulbous, such with many symes or KD's, the test socket has to be cut off. This forces the patient to perhaps go back to wearing an older ill-fitting socket and wait a at least a few days for the definitive socket to be complete.
Anyone have success in digitizing a socket to capture both shape and alignment. If so, is there a central fab facility that you find works well?
Thanks in advance, Zach
Citation
Zzharv, “Archiving shape and alignment with CAD,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 2, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/231760.
