Welcome to my Halloween blog post. As the procrastinator I am, it actually is a Halloween blog post. Yay.
This month I spent a lot more time in my mentors office meeting patients and actually getting some good experiences. I got to see him manipulate casts and plaster molds of an amputees leg. It was really interesting to get to see all the research I've been doing being put into practice. He was able to clarify many of the terms I've been writing down by actually showing me what they are/where they are. Here are some pictures of what he was working on. These two casts are for different patients and are completely different according to the patients individual limb.
This is a plastic check socket that has plaster poured into it. In order to make any adjustments, you have to work with the plaster because you can't really changed the test socket to fit the patient. You do this process as many times as it takes for the patient to be comfortable.
This is what the positive plaster mold looks like with the plastic check socket removed. From here you can shave down parts that need to be tighter in the socket or add plaster to parts that need to be loosened.
Thanks for reading the updates, I hope to be able to manipulate casts soon or at least be apart of the process.
