title: A new in-built device for one-point stepless prosthetic alignment.
abstract: The authors have developed a new in-built device for alignment of below-knee prostheses. The device allows one-point, stepless adjustment of angle and slide, independently of each other and also after completed prosthetic manufacture. Principally, the device consists of a half-sphere for angle adjustment and a plate for both slide adjustment and socket application. If the socket has to be exchanged, the whole device can be re-used, apart from the plate, which forms part of the socket bottom. The device is light, compact, cosmetically easy to cover and cheap. The design incorporates a combination of the most important facilities for alignment as well as for exchange of socket, and by its simplicity seems to offer major advantages over other designs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Köhler
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lind
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lind
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rennerfeldt
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kreicbergs
mesh_terms: D001186:Artificial Limbs; D006801:Humans; D007717:Knee; D007866:Leg; D008124:Locomotion; D011474:Prosthesis Design