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A quantitative method for comparing and evaluating manual prosthetic socket modifications.

E D Lemaire·F Johnson
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Abstract

Manually designed prosthetic sockets are difficult to evaluate since the hand-sculpting modification process does not retain the initial shape for comparison. A quantitative method for defining and comparing manual socket modifications was developed and integrated into the CADVIEW software package. The numerical comparison procedure consisted of a) digitizing premodification and post-modification models of a prosthetic socket, b) aligning these two shapes to a common axis (calculate cross section centroids, determine line of best fit through the centroids, rotate and move the line of best fit to a common axis), and c) displaying the differences in shape both numerically and using a color-coded three dimensional image. Alignment technique testing showed a between-radial-point average error of 2.5 mm using automatic alignment and 1.4 mm after further manual alignment adjustment. The between socket difference values were used to outline individual modifications and save these outlines to disk. Modification outlines from a series of patients were averaged to determine a prosthetist's general modification style. Averaged results from two prosthetists qualitatively supported the effectiveness of this procedure. This alignment and comparison system should help transfer hand-sculpting skills to prosthetic CAD/CAM systems, clinical research, and education for new clinicians.

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Amputation StumpsArtificial LimbsComputer-Aided DesignEvaluation Studies as TopicHumansLegModels, TheoreticalProsthesis DesignProsthesis FittingReference ValuesSensitivity and SpecificitySoftwareComparative StudyJournal ArticleResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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E D Lemaire, F Johnson. 1996. A quantitative method for comparing and evaluating manual prosthetic socket modifications.. https://doi.org/10.1109/86.547931

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