A review on various types of elastomeric and gel soft sockets used in
lower limb prostheses

  Seyed Shahin Homaeigohar [1]

  Abstract:

  Among various parts of a lower limb prosthesis, the socket due to its direct contact with body and indeed its role as an interface between anatomy of body and artificial limb is in first level of importance. Because of this issue, the proper design of a socket is very important. In order to design a socket properly, quality of its interface with stump and the mode of load transfer between the socket and stump is very critical and because of this, the presence of a material or device in the interface in order to enhance comfort is necessary. The liners or soft sockets are primarily designed to fulfill this reason.

  The aim of this research is evaluation of different types of the soft sockets as a part of the prosthetic socket. In current research, It was tried to evaluate different types of soft sockets from the view of the materials used in manufacture of such devices.

  Keywords : Lower limb prosthesis, Soft socket, Liner, Amputation.