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The Impact of Limited Prosthetic Socket Documentation: A Researcher Perspective

The majority of limb prostheses are socket mounted. For these devices, the socket is essential for adequate prosthetic suspension, comfort, and control. The socket is unique among prosthetic components as it is not usually mass-produced and must instead be custom-made for individual residual limbs b...

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Autores principales: Olsen, Jennifer, Turner, Shruti, Chadwell, Alix, Dickinson, Alex, Ostler, Chantel, Armitage, Lucy, McGregor, Alison H., Dupan, Sigrid, Day, Sarah
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9397974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36189046
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fresc.2022.853414
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author Olsen, Jennifer
Turner, Shruti
Chadwell, Alix
Dickinson, Alex
Ostler, Chantel
Armitage, Lucy
McGregor, Alison H.
Dupan, Sigrid
Day, Sarah
author_facet Olsen, Jennifer
Turner, Shruti
Chadwell, Alix
Dickinson, Alex
Ostler, Chantel
Armitage, Lucy
McGregor, Alison H.
Dupan, Sigrid
Day, Sarah
author_sort Olsen, Jennifer
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description The majority of limb prostheses are socket mounted. For these devices, the socket is essential for adequate prosthetic suspension, comfort, and control. The socket is unique among prosthetic components as it is not usually mass-produced and must instead be custom-made for individual residual limbs by a prosthetist. The knowledge of what constitutes “good” socket fit is gained by expert prosthetists and technicians over years of experience, and rarely documented. The reliance on tacit knowledge makes it difficult to standardize the criteria for a well-fitting socket, leading to difficulties understanding the impact of socket fit. Despite its importance, the workflow for socket fitting is often overlooked in literature. Due to the customized nature of sockets, if information is provided in literature, generally only the type of socket and suspension mechanism is noted, with information regarding the fitting and manufacturing processes omitted. In this article, the concerns, issues and consequences arising from lack of upper and lower limb socket documentation are discussed from a researcher perspective, supported by healthcare professionals and socket fabrication specialists. Key changes are proposed to the way socket manufacturing and evaluation are documented to assist future research.
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spelling pubmed-93979742022-09-29 The Impact of Limited Prosthetic Socket Documentation: A Researcher Perspective Olsen, Jennifer Turner, Shruti Chadwell, Alix Dickinson, Alex Ostler, Chantel Armitage, Lucy McGregor, Alison H. Dupan, Sigrid Day, Sarah Front Rehabil Sci Rehabilitation Sciences The majority of limb prostheses are socket mounted. For these devices, the socket is essential for adequate prosthetic suspension, comfort, and control. The socket is unique among prosthetic components as it is not usually mass-produced and must instead be custom-made for individual residual limbs by a prosthetist. The knowledge of what constitutes “good” socket fit is gained by expert prosthetists and technicians over years of experience, and rarely documented. The reliance on tacit knowledge makes it difficult to standardize the criteria for a well-fitting socket, leading to difficulties understanding the impact of socket fit. Despite its importance, the workflow for socket fitting is often overlooked in literature. Due to the customized nature of sockets, if information is provided in literature, generally only the type of socket and suspension mechanism is noted, with information regarding the fitting and manufacturing processes omitted. In this article, the concerns, issues and consequences arising from lack of upper and lower limb socket documentation are discussed from a researcher perspective, supported by healthcare professionals and socket fabrication specialists. Key changes are proposed to the way socket manufacturing and evaluation are documented to assist future research. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9397974/ /pubmed/36189046 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fresc.2022.853414 Text en Copyright © 2022 Olsen, Turner, Chadwell, Dickinson, Ostler, Armitage, McGregor, Dupan and Day. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Olsen, Jennifer
Turner, Shruti
Chadwell, Alix
Dickinson, Alex
Ostler, Chantel
Armitage, Lucy
McGregor, Alison H.
Dupan, Sigrid
Day, Sarah
The Impact of Limited Prosthetic Socket Documentation: A Researcher Perspective
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9397974/
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