Socket/stump interface dynamic pressure distributions recorded during the prosthetic stance phase of gait of a trans-tibial amputee wearing a hydrocast socket

Prosthet Orthot Int. 1999 Aug;23(2):107-12. doi: 10.3109/03093649909071621.

Abstract

Force sensing resistors (FSR) have been used to measure dynamic stump/socket interface pressures during the gait of a trans-tibial amputee. A total of 350 pressure sensors were attached to the inner wall of a hydrocast socket. Data were sampled at 150 Hz during approximately 0.8 seconds of prosthetic stance of gait. The dynamic pressure distributions within a hand cast socket reported by Convery and Buis (1998) are compared with those monitored within a hydrocast socket for the same amputee. The pressure gradients within the hydrocast socket are less than that of the hand cast Patellar-Tendon-Bearing (PTB) socket. The proximal "ring" of high pressure in the hand cast PTB socket is replaced with a more distal pressure in the hydrocast socket.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Amputees
  • Artificial Limbs*
  • Biomechanical Phenomena
  • Gait / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Leg / physiology*
  • Male
  • Pressure