The expert system
Introduction
- Socketfinder® is your helper in the constuction of your ischial containment or conventional above-knee sockets.
- Socketfinder® It enables you to benefit from an extremely efficient tool without any investment !
- Socketfinder® gives you the benefit of the largest above-knee socket bank in the world !
Sectional view of an ischial containment socket.
How does Socketfinder® works?
All your patients are different. But some of them resemble one other!
Socketfinder® utilizes their anthropometric similarities.
Cyclone: The Renishaw® cyclone 3D scanner.
The above-knee sockets are digitized and inputted into the Socketfinder® data bank.
The constituent sockets have stood their test, since they are being worn by amputee patients - which thus demonstrates the correctness of their shape and their volume.
With its vast data bank, which is updated every week, Socketfinder® contains all the experience required for use in the fabrication of new sockets.
What has to be done?
No in-plaster measurements, no casts, no screen modelling:
All that is needed is to input the desired values for the future socket (circumferences, skeletal space, depthn, etc.) to obtain from Socketfinder® a selection of recordings.
The transformations needed for the production of a new socket by CAM are automatically indicated.
- Suitable research impellents !
- Efficient sorting of the information !
- Simplicity of use !
Socketfinder® software processes your socket request when you have to construct a new prosthesis. It extracts for you a choice of socket shapes having the same anthropometrical similarities with your patient.
- In the case of a new patient, Socketfinder® enables you to search among the sockets you have already recorded in the data base or in the data set for the socket which meets the situation.
- To fabricate a new socket for a patient who already has a socket recorded in the Socketfinder®, you can order a copy, if necessary asking for it to be enlarged or reduced either proportionally to a modification factor or by adding a positive or negative surface displacement.
Time saved at the preparatory stage.
Orthopaedic technicians engaged in fitting above-knee amputees with prostheses have more time for testing , because they no longer have to prepare the test socket , especially as they can make use of their own models if they have been deposited in the Socketfinder® data bank
The product.
The customized product !
A socket block in two halves to be bonded, two retaining pins. The product. The customized product ! A socket block in two halves to be bonded, two retaining pins. The firm responsible for the machining process can mill a blank for you which you can use to fabricate the socket or make a transparent check socket after having constructed a positive of the socket.
Possibilities offered by the product !
1.The socket in plastic material.
2. The socket in wood.
3. Proximal ring.
In-plaster measurement for orthoprosthesis with proximal ring developed with the aid of Socketfinder®. (Patient aged 12 months.)