I have found that some patients develop skin irritaion in the liner in an elevated vacuum socket if no lubrication is used.  Others prefer no lubrication and have had no problmes for years. Some prefer lubricating only in certian areas for example over an adhered scars or near the proximal brim. A man with a Syme's.  I recently fit with a new custom silicon liner could only tolerate the liner when it was lubricated inside. When it was applied dry, he was exteremely uncomfortable as soon as the liner was applied.

The Elevated Vacuum Blog has been adopted and is now moving into her new home at www.oandp.com. She is very excited to be among friends and family. For those of you who don't know her yet, let me do the introductions. The Elevated Vacuum Blog is an interactive website within oandp.com that allows users, teachers, researchers, patients, prosthetists, manufacturers and others to ask, answer or share thier stuff. I will provide the basic content, but the more you use the site, the more exciting and useful it is. So... Welcome!!!....... and keep checking in as content is added, post by post and page by page.