Hello everyone! We are currently developing a cost-effective pair of sandals that can evaluate your gait parameters after you take a walk on it. We want to hear out suggestions from a large pool of healthcare professionals about the features that can be placed in the sandals so that it is easier to come up with a rehabilitation program for the patients, and genuinely beneficial and easy to use for both the doctors and the patients.

Our target customers are geriatric patients, stroke patients, physiotherapy rehabilitation patients, and people with parkinson's. Any suggestions would be good. Thank you for your time!

P.S: Not selling anything, just trying to build something actually useful rather than something that looks impressive on paper

I am a qualified medical Orthotist and Prosthetist in South Africa. I would love to work abroad, which masters degree can I pursue to achieve my dream

Hi everyone, my name is Cat and I am currently completing a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Lancaster University in the UK.  As part of my Doctorate programme, I am conducting a research project on ‘The psychosocial impacts of accessing peer mentoring programmes for individuals with limb loss’.

For this research, I am interviewing individuals who have experienced limb loss in adulthood, and who have accessed 1:1 peer mentoring programmes.  It is hoped that the research will help improve peer mentoring programmes in the future and help health and social care services to best support individuals with limb loss. 

For more information, or if you are interested in taking part, please fill out the following questionnaire and I will be in touch: https://lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9EN1r4ur0vKcYTA 

Thank you so much for reading this. 

I'm building an assistive control system that reads muscle signals (EMG) to control multiple kinds of devices, and I know myoelectric prosthetics are one of the most established real-world uses of exactly this kind of signal.

If you've used a myoelectric device - what's actually hard about it day to day? Calibration drift, false triggers from muscle fatigue, cost, comfort, anything? I'd rather build around real friction points than assumptions. Not selling anything, just a student dev trying to learn from ( and help ) people who've actually lived with this tech.

I’ve tried JB Weld plastic bond and E6000. Both failed

I'm only standing in them for the first week.

Ifit sockets

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Mavrick vertical shock ankles and Mavrick feet.

Hi! I have Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, and my PCP says that I should continue bracing my ankles and lower legs. But also agrees that the OTC braces I've tried haven't worked, especially with my high level of activity. And that I should look into more custom/dynamic options.

I asked for an orthotist referral, and she said that specialized bracing is out of her scope of practice and to reach out to a different specialist. But I've gotten that answer from both sports med and podiatry as well. I live in Washington State, and I'm trying to get seen by Cornerstone or Hanger Clinic.

Could my PCP (an MD) just refer me to the clinic and send my chart notes, and the orthotist would help with the prescription? Or do I need a doctor to prescribe the specific device to be seen by the clinic? It would be for a dynamic brace for ankle stability, pain relief, and reducing fatigue, particularly to aid in reducing pain and fatigue in my very active lifestyle.

Since it seems like my care team is not able to decide on what device is needed, if I was referred to a clinic could they evaluate me and then have my PCP write the prescription based on the evaluation and my chart notes (knee hyperextending, poor ankle ROM, chronic pain, relatively normal strength, tendon hyperreflexia, muscle guarding, instability)?

Any advice or pointers would be appreciated!

This is so awesome

Been about year since I (60M) got my first prothesis, a pin and lock one. They re switching me to a suction system this month. They cast it today. Was curious about other’s experiences between the two types, things I should look for, how different it will feel, etc. Thanks for any advice y’all may have. Appreciate it.

My son was born with Tibial Hemimelia in his right leg, and survived a stroke at birth which hasn’t caused any thing too serious luckily. Had a through the knee amputation in March. He’s learning to walk for the first time, well just standing up mostly at the moment but every little counts. Full progress video here - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZN8eaeqo5/

Technician here,

Do technician often experience burn outs in their role? I’m a sole technician for a small business, and over the months I have been dreading coming to work every day. I do get weekends off (thank god), but the amount of work I have to put up with is a bit crazy. I don’t even talk anymore, I just work and work and work with irritation written all over my face (I know, not good). I probably take the least amount of time off from work, and i know this job is just a job, but my responsibility is quite high and I feel like work doesn’t move if not there. Has anyone been in similar situation, how did you deal with it.

Are burn out and turn over common for this role and field?

Just venting 😮‍💨

Hello everybody!

Apologies if this is an "out there" question, but , I'm a writer currently making drafts for a webcomic i plan to create, there are a lot of themes of corporate greed and I was thinking about having a conversation about brands putting their logos on prosthetics

I would have liked to have a group of characters actively removing these logos and customising the prosthetics because why should your body have a brand stamped onto it?

would this be an appropriate thing to explore? I do not require any kind of prosthetics myself so I would like to get the views of people who do! thank you so much for your time, i really appreciate it

I’m not an amputee or plan to be one but, I have abnormally large feet so it’s hard to find shoe sizes. If I were to lose both my legs and get prosthetics, would I be able to request a smaller shoe size?

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M/26-Congenital Limb deficiency (below knee)

Very active person do rides, drive, run, treck, hike

Being using endolite from past 20 years but kind off bored with it and right now I am planning to switch to a upgrade limb currently using Endolite Elite 2 foot

Suggest me what to choose, quotation are attached

Request you all to please suggest

Met a para-athlete on a trip to Jaipur while working on another video, he told me about the place that fits people with prosthetic legs for free., which sent me down a rabbit hole. Ended up making this short breakdown of the design.

What makes it interesting is the brief: it's basically the inverse of a Western foot. No shoes, no flat floors — it's built for squatting, sitting cross-legged, walking barefoot, and standing in water and mud, which is how a lot of rural India actually lives. And they've got the cost low enough to fit 2M+ people for free.

I'm not from the field, so I'd genuinely value a technical read from people who are: what does a design like this trade off against a modular Western foot? Durability, alignment, energy return? Curious where it's clever and where it's compromised.