Assessment of Socket Shapes Made by Central Fabrication Facilities

University of Washington

Status: Completed

Conditions: People With Lower Limb Amputation That Are Ambulatory

Treatments: Other: Assessed for socket fit

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01245504

31673 E/B

Details and patient eligibility

About

Quality and accuracy of prosthetic sockets manufactured by central fabrication facilities may be lacking. Poor quality manufacturing can be detrimental to socket fit in amputees and may require more work by prosthetists to redesign the socket. The aim of this research is to assess the accuracy of prosthetic sockets manufactured by commercial companies. Determination of how and where manufacturing errors occur will contribute to better quality of socket fit for the amputee patient and improve the efficiency of prosthetists who fit the manufactured products to their patients.

Computer manufactured sockets are made for subjects, then their fits assessed by research practitioners.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• trans-tibial amputees who use a prosthesis and are ambulatory

Exclusion criteria

• do not have a prosthesis, cannot ambulate

Trial design

24 participants in 1 patient group

Lower-limb amputee

Description:

Subjects with at least one lower limb amputated at teh trans-tibial level

Treatment:

Other: Assessed for socket fit