Stress Analysis of Different Rigid Frame Designs within a Flexible Transfemoral Prosthetic Socket
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Transfemoral sockets were originally constructed from wood or hard plastic laminates (Radcliffe, 1955). More recently, thermoplastics and acrylic resins with carbon fiber or other woven materials have been used (Ng, 2002). Although these materials achieve suitable load transmission between the residual limb and the prosthesis, their rigidity prevent the sockets from dynamically conforming to changes in residual limb shape and volume during gait (Sanders, 2009).
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