Silicones in making prostheses and orthoses

Orthoses, prostheses, controls and ethics.

In any business relationship contracts, provision of services or outsourcing -, the contracting party (public or private) has the sacred duty and the full right to audit. The control and evaluation is vital sector for the zeal, care, probity, proper application of funds dispensed to purchase inputs, procedures execution and personnel payment. To assist in this thorny, but necessary task, there ...

Partial Foot Prostheses/Orthoses

Prostheses and orthoses prescribed for partial foot amputations vary in design and principle. Authors have described the need or the lack of need of toe lever arms, extensions above or below the ankle, and hard and soft sockets. Al­ most every design violates a principle thought to be a requirement of the other designers of partial foot prostheses/orthoses. The purpose of this paper is to descr...

Myoelectric Control of Prostheses and Orthoses

Indigenous substitutes for modern prostheses and orthoses.

In most developing countries, the physically handicapped often have rehabilitation setbacks such as unavailability of modern rehabilitative aids which may result in non-achievement of the desired goals in activities of daily living. Children with poliomyelitis, hemiplegics, amputees and paraplegics top the list of patients requiring rehabilitation at University College Hospital, Ibadan. The amp...

10. Silicones as Mold-Making Elastomers

Long ago, people must have realised that clay could be used to take imprints of simple objects like a leaf, or later, a coin. Carefully withdrawing the clay gave a negative of the object or a mold in which other materials like plaster could be cast to reproduce the original. Clay is still used today to make molds, particularly to reproduce museum pieces like statues, not only because it is inex...