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NUFlexSIV sockets
Posted By: Mitchell Farrar on May 4, 2017
Hi everyone, I'm hoping I might be able to hear some feedback about the NUFlexSIV sockets from anyone who has had any experience with them. We have one transfemoral client in mind to trial the socket design and he is very interested in doing so as well. He is very active and his residual limb is long of a medium to firm consistency. He is currently wearing a modified quad socket suspended through passive suction and a Seal-In liner and is using the Rheo XC knee with Proflex foot. When his socket is fitting well he only has a few issues which the NUFlexSIV socket might address, namely being able to ride his bike without the socket interfering with the saddle as well as some chaffing he experiences sometimes around his ischium. He does not often have issues with suspension, though incorporating a Unity system may further improve suspension as well as control of his prosthesis. If anyone has fitted one of these sockets, I'd be very interested in hearing your experiences, especially with regard to the long term outcomes of use of the socket as well as if anyone has had to deviate from Ryan Caldwell's recommendations to improve their fittings and for what reasons. Thanks in advance. Mitch Farrar Mitch Farrar BEng(Biomedical)/BMedSci MCPO MAOPA MISPO Unit 36, 148 Chesterville Road Moorabbin. Victoria 3189 (m) (03) 9532 5098 Promotion Prosthetics @pmprosthetics #Promotion_Prosthetics |
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