Casting the through-knee stump

A Plastic Socket and Stump Casting Technique for Above-knee Prostheses.

Above-knee artificial limbs with wooden or metal sockets have been produced successfully for many years and these materials will doubtless continue to be used in the future. Circumstances arise, however, when it is necessary to find an alternative material that has similar properties to wood or metal, but which may be used by technicians who do not possess the long experience of the wood or met...

Prefabricated below-knee sockets for the maturing stump.

Measuring the shape and volume of an above-knee stump.

A set of design criteria for sensing the shape of an above-knee (AK) stump is presented and used as the basis for evaluating various shape sensing technologies. A mechanical probe type shape sensing system is described and its use in quantifying the external shape of the AK stump is discussed as it relates to generating a grid for finite element analysis in CAD/CAM studies and comparing the seg...

A New Approach to Stump Shrinkage for Above-knee Amputees

the part of the writer with results obtabed from presently employed techniques used to accomplish a preformed stump for incorporation in a permanent socket. This technique has been used only on a small number of geriatric amputees where amputations were performed because of circulatory complications. The initial evaluation of this method produced the following observations: the stump was less s...

Spare Parts Surgery—Salvage of a Below Knee Amputation Stump

“Spare parts surgery” is well-described in the plastic surgery literature. In the setting of trauma, otherwise discarded parts can be utilized for reconstruction resulting in a superior functional and aesthetic outcome for the patient. We describe the use of spare part surgery in order to preserve a functional knee articulation in a patient undergoing amputation for compartment.