Evidence-Generated Sockets for Transtibial Prosthetic Limbs Compared With Conventional Computer-Aided Designs: A Multiple-Methods Study From the Patient's Perspective.

ABSTRACT: Personalized prosthetic socket design depends upon highly skilled prosthetists. They aim to balance functional human-prosthesis coupling with safe, comfortable load transmission from the prosthesis to the skeleton, through vulnerable skin and soft tissues. Both traditional plaster and computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) methods are iterative, and sharing knowledge is difficult. Evidence-generated (EG) sockets derived from past computer-aided socket design (CASD) records could provide a personalized starting point for limb fitting, potentially reducing time spent on basic design and enabling prosthetists to focus on more highly-skilled customization. This study aimed to assess the comfort of EG sockets, generated from past CASD records. A crossover trial compared EG sockets, d

SUBMITTER: Mbithi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12370269 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature