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Jaipur below-knee prosthesis is indigenously designed and
fabricated from locally available and durable high density
polyethylene/ Co-PP sheets and HDPE pipes and fitted with world famous
Jaipur foot. It becomes highly functional prosthesis with a total
contact socket. It looks like a normal limb, has good range
of movement required for normal human locomotion.
Total Contact Socket has
many advantages over conventional open ended socket:
a) It provides better sensory feedback to the wearer.
b) It helps in preventing edema at the lower end of the stump
and helps
in improving venous return, a great advantage in
the immediate post
Surgical fittings.
c) Gives better proprioception to the wearer.
d) Allows scientific weight
distribution over large surface area of the
stump.
e) Provides facility for
easy alignment changes.
f) PTS (PTB-SC) helps in
self suspension.
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