Digital Workflow for Prosthetic Socket Production – Clinical and Workshop Practises

This instructional course aims to provide practitioners with basic knowledge of current digital workflow practices for the creation of prosthetic sockets. The course will discuss a flowchart of a digitalised workflow in comparison to traditional production, and explain basic knowledge and practices surrounding each digitalised step for further context. This course aims to further practitioners understanding of how they can implement digital workflows into their current practises, and how this will affect their outputs on resource, material waste, storage capacity and time. Recommendations will be given on types of additive manufacturing solutions are available and most relevant to the production of transtibial prostheses, as well as what may be out of scope in a digitalised workflow compared to traditional practises. Insight into realistic implementation of digitalised workflows will be given through case study examples and first-hand advice from the managing director of a European prosthetic and orthotic company.

Statement of the objective / learning objectives

Understand traditional against digitalised workflows for socket production; How to create a prosthetic socket using a digitalised workflow; What current additive manufacturing solutions are available for sockets; Challenges present when adopting digitalised workflows.