Lightweight Thigh Prosthesis for the elderly

The elderly are amputated with the main cause of atherosclerosis and diabetes on thigh.They are more passive in the spirit and lack a certain ability to judge in theirspirit Their emotions are more unstable. Also due to physical failure,the stump muscle strength and trunk and upper limb muscle strength will decline. The healthy leg can not have a good grasp of balance, there will be limb shrinkage.

Traditional thigh prosthesis is very heavy, the prosthetic knee is unstable, and the wearing is cumbersome. There are many difficulties in adapting the prosthetic socket according to the weight change of the user and the swelling of the residual limb.Therefore the elderly with thigh amputation loses knee function and has to use a wheelchair instead.


Especially in Europe and the United States,the system demands amputees with shorter hospital stay.So that amputees can not have fully prosthesis gait training, a lot of patients rely on wheelchair life after coming out of the hospital. Earlier years, there are internal bone bars with knee-locking structures,they soften the upper edge of polypropylene socket, so that the circumference of the prosthetic socket could be adjusted according to the circumference of the stump.

In recent years, according to the research of safety and light weight of the thigh prosthesis, there has been a large variety of prosthetic knee and socket. One representative of MEDI-REBATEK develops a variety of prosthetic socket that are suitable for human body, there are all kinds of hydraulic, pneumatic prosthetic kneewith high safety. There are a special prosthetic knee for Asian people,that is more suitable for Asian people use and installation. 

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