Are you a passionate in delivering the most innovatives solutions to you most compelling patients with an amputation with fitting problems or an active patient that wants the maximum recovery:
More anatomical loading
more stable anatomy
less probability of pressure oedema
more cylindrical stump
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Surgeons
Orthoisist
Do you want a solution for your that could benefit from partial distal loading and less impact due to painful bone spurs and painful areas, reducing:
painful proximal loading
recurrence of painful bony spikes
opportunity to benefit from more distribute loading
intense stump volume fluctuation that moves socket contact points and loading
more distributed load means more stable implant fitting
more cylindrical stump
An amputation is a Major change in a patient life and his or her family, and it's just the beginning of a new way of living.
Despite vast leaps in the technology of lower-limb prostheses, acceptance of a prosthesis is limited by the quality of interfacing between the residuum and the device.
No single design fits all, and if production of a socket is a complex task, requiring significant skill and expertise from the prosthetist, nevertheless a safe and smooth fitting to prostheses requires strong efforts and knowledge and collaboration of multiple healthcare professionals, at minimum:
Surgical Team
Physiatrist
Prosthetist and Orthotist
The fit and pressure distribution of the socket can significantly impact the health of the soft tissue, leading to conditions such as pressure sores if not properly managed. The residuum-socket interface is further complicated by natural volume fluctuations of the limb, issues with thermoregulation, infections, bone change by time and musculoskeletal pathologies.
Physiatrist
Re-active implant can represent an opportunity for a more satisfactory recovery and less painfull prosthetic fitting, by allowing partial distal loading and more uniform distal shape, would be possible to achieve:
less pain due to proximal overload
less painful bony spikes
opportunity to benefit from more distribute loading , more stable prostheses
reduce impact skin problems and oedema due to volume variations
irregular bone
WHY
bone irragularities can bring complexity on the socket fitting and load transfer.
Overpressure
OverPressure on areas that are not anatomical structured for this mean can generate structural deformations on surrunding structures like cronic inflamation of bursa
Anatomical changes
by time anatomical structures can change making more and more difficult fitting your prosthetic socket
Socket confort in daily use
Different socket designs can generate different confort in daily life, but slim designs can connot be suitable for all patinents if not able to load on distal leg part
Fitting a prosthetic socket is not always easy and the need to load over structures that are not anatomical adapt to this can create insatisfaction in patients and hard work for prosthesests and phisioterapists
moreover bone structure can change by time creating painful spikes, stabilizing the distal bony part could be a solution to reduce critial eveniences
Femoral Implant
SOLUTION
optimize distal bone shape for loading
Trans Tibial
Optimize loading capacity and stabilization of fibula
distal prosteses that can:
stabilize bone segment
increase load transfer area
allow for fibula fitting
Advanced Technology
Maximize performace trhough use of leeding tecnology, as for example Additing manufacturing to obtain bone like structures to implememnt primary stability, bone integration and functionality
