NCT03390153

Reduction of Shear Forces Using Semi-flexible Sockets on Transtibial Amputees

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 5 (actual)
• Sponsor: Loma Linda University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this graduate student research study, is to test two different sockets for comfort and test what pressures are created by the socket during daily activities. The objective is to illustrate that semi-flexible sockets will maintain its rigidity and resist progressive shear forces from daily activity, ergo making our prosthetic system a more comfortable experience for the prosthetic user.

Detailed description

Subjects will immediately be prepared for a casting of their residual limb. On the second visit, subjects will return to be fitted with a definitive rigid carbon fiber socket. At this time, a questionnaire and physical assessments will determine subjects comfort and safety. The physical assessment consists of a ten minute walk on a treadmill, at a self-selected pace. A balancing test on a SMART Balance Master will also be used to assess subject safety, by utilizing the limits of stability protocol. Subjects' will be required to wear the prosthesis given to them for one week before returning for a follow-up appointment. On the third visit, the subjects' will return the first prosthesis to the investigators of the study, where an additional socket will be given to the subject for the second portion of this study. Subjects will be evaluated with a questionnaire and physical assessments to determine comfort and safety. Participants will be required to wear the prosthesis given to them for one week before returning for a follow-up appointment. During the final appointment, the subjects will return all devices given to them to an investigator of the study.

Conditions

• Amputation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	semi flexible socket	The investigators will analyze the subject's gait by trained visual diagnosis and video gait analysis, to determine comfort and safety. Any modifications will be done at this time. Once the subjects, student, and faculty investigators are satisfied with the overall fit of prostheses, a student investigator will insert force sensors into the socket to evaluate pressure. In the 'Comfort Test', walk at a self-selected pace on a treadmill for 10 minutes. Subjects will then perform a single stance activity on a Balance Master. Investigators will remove the force sensors and do one final safety check of prostheses before each subject takes their definitive socket home. Subjects will be required to wear the prosthesis given to them for one week before returning for a follow up appointment.
OTHER	rigid fiber socket	The investigators will analyze the subject's gait by trained visual diagnosis and video gait analysis, to determine comfort and safety. Any modifications will be done at this time. Once the subjects, student, and faculty investigators are satisfied with the overall fit of prostheses, a student investigator will insert force sensors into the socket to evaluate pressure. In the 'Comfort Test', walk at a self-selected pace on a treadmill for 10 minutes. Subjects will then perform a single stance activity on a Balance Master. Investigators will remove the force sensors and do one final safety check of prostheses before each subject takes their definitive socket home. Subjects will be required to wear the prosthesis given to them for one week before returning for a follow up appointment.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-02
• Primary completion: 2018-08-01
• Completion: 2018-08-01
• First posted: 2018-01-04
• Last updated: 2018-09-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States