Honors College Thesis
 

Investigating a Universal Prosthetic Design Process

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  • In current prosthetic practices, the design process heavily relies on the prosthetist’s expertise and the limited methods to quantify design choices. This thesis investigates the lower-limb prosthetic fitting process and the importance of the socket design. Previous research has taken local stiffness of the limb to provide prosthetists with more objective data about limb tissues, but how this information can be applied is not directly evident. This thesis presents two concepts for measuring local limb stiffness and a possible application to the socket design process. A decision matrix was developed to compare new ideas and existing technologies for measuring local limb stiffness. Essential factors to consider for a mechanism that takes limb data are the patient’s comfort, the accuracy of the system, implementation, operator usability, and the time required. A tool that rates well in all these areas will be more accessible to the field of prosthetics. For stiffness data to impact the socket design process and reduce the time to get to a successful socket, it should be combined with known biomechanical data about residual limbs.
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