{"id":114,"date":"2008-11-15T15:24:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T13:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=114"},"modified":"2017-11-18T13:36:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T11:36:15","slug":"heavy-duty-stump-sock-protector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Stump socks \/ protectors for different applications I"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not always wearing the prosthesis or keeping my stump uncovered to air it out. Often, some protective clothing or stump socks<\/a> are helpful.<\/p>\n

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Heavy duty protection<\/strong><\/p>\n

When lugging hot or heavy stuff, wearing a prosthesis may not always be optimal. As the skin on my stump is tender but my will is generally unbroken, I need something to the nature of tyres: from that, the idea of a heavy duty stump sock was born.<\/p>\n

It appears as if most other people do not have that problem (otherwise Otto Bock’s or Ossur’s catalogs would be full of heavy duty stump socks). So I found a cheap way to solve this problem.
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\nI bought a number of heavy duty \/ transporter \/ packet handling gloves that sell for little money (about 3-5$ the pair). I then put one over my stump and use a stapler to delineate the shape that the glove will later obtain (see following images).<\/p>\n

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Then I sit down and sew along the staples; then I remove the staples and cut around the suture line (see following images).<\/p>\n

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The end result is a heavy duty stump protector, useful to take out garbage, work in the garden, clean the house or whatever else (see following image).<\/p>\n

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These gloves come in all kinds of flavors and colors, the price ranges between a few dollars and a few hundred dollars, as the type of protection ranges from general \/ not further specified to very specific high quality protection wear.<\/p>\n

No skid socks<\/strong><\/p>\n

These were hanging around in our super market. How cool, rubber dots to improve contact.<\/p>\n

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Keep the stump warm<\/strong><\/p>\n

For activities such as kitchen work where I may get my hand(s) dirty, the open sleeve has proven very comfortable and useful (provided by Lotti Dangel):<\/p>\n

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For various feelings of cold and to satisfy a need for different textures, I use a number of close end sleeves (provided by Sabine Klein<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Sports<\/strong><\/p>\n

For running or other land sports, I like cotton socks, such as this cotton Otto Bock sock:<\/p>\n

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Also, I have a number of ‘normal’ socks to wear on the arm (size 46 or so’ll do).<\/p>\n\n

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