In a message dated 7/28/98 1:06:04 AM, [email protected] wrote:
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You did not specify what style socket–Quad-ish or ischial containment-ish???
Why have a flexible socket if you don’t let it flex? (A flexible socket
surrounded by a frame is still hard…) All of our flexFrame sockets are cut
out in the posterior and windowed in the anterior. This is extremely
comfortable–cooler that standard design; allows the muscles to expand as you
walk; allows the socket to “collapse” when sitting making that activity more
comfortable as well. Just make sure the plastic is at least 3/16 thick over
the medial ischial support (if ischial containment-ish) and has a frame
“strut” up over it for support.
I wear one of these myself and wouldn’t go back to a hard socket.
JTA
