Clinical observations needed: limb volume shrinkage
Charles King
Description
Collection
Title:
Clinical observations needed: limb volume shrinkage
Creator:
Charles King
Date:
6/8/2012
Text:
Dear Colleagues,
I recently attended a military meeting on prosthetic sockets
with an excess of acronyms. The purpose
of the meeting was to define problems in the prosthetic socket so research
funds could be directed towards their solution.
Volume issues were brought up and some extreme examples were presented
of military amputees being returned to theater with 7 prosthetic sockets to
deal with volume issues overseas.
Wow. I would like to solicit
practitioners’ experiences with the typical interval of socket changes for your
patients as well as your experiences with daily volume shrinkage, or weekly
volume shrinkage or monthly volume shrinkage and yearly volume shrinkage. Age, morbidities and comorbidities, socket
design all come into play and please help me define that. I would like to receive your
clinical observations so I can get a handle on limb volume shrinkage and perhaps build some sort of classification system.
Has anyone studied their CAD socket documentation related to
fit /limb volume shrinkage? Does anyone
have a grasp of where exactly the shrinkage is occurring?
Students and literature savvy folks, I know there are research
papers that cover the period of post-surgery to initial limb fitting regarding
limb volume changes; I welcome all literature citations you might have handy and
would be much obliged.
Best regards,
Charles King, CP
I recently attended a military meeting on prosthetic sockets
with an excess of acronyms. The purpose
of the meeting was to define problems in the prosthetic socket so research
funds could be directed towards their solution.
Volume issues were brought up and some extreme examples were presented
of military amputees being returned to theater with 7 prosthetic sockets to
deal with volume issues overseas.
Wow. I would like to solicit
practitioners’ experiences with the typical interval of socket changes for your
patients as well as your experiences with daily volume shrinkage, or weekly
volume shrinkage or monthly volume shrinkage and yearly volume shrinkage. Age, morbidities and comorbidities, socket
design all come into play and please help me define that. I would like to receive your
clinical observations so I can get a handle on limb volume shrinkage and perhaps build some sort of classification system.
Has anyone studied their CAD socket documentation related to
fit /limb volume shrinkage? Does anyone
have a grasp of where exactly the shrinkage is occurring?
Students and literature savvy folks, I know there are research
papers that cover the period of post-surgery to initial limb fitting regarding
limb volume changes; I welcome all literature citations you might have handy and
would be much obliged.
Best regards,
Charles King, CP
Citation
Charles King, “Clinical observations needed: limb volume shrinkage,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 6, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/233722.
