Exit Interview

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why? 

• What is the most effective way to secure a residual limb inside of a fitted prosthetic socket?
• Pin suspension is an effective way to make a patient feel secure.
• Vacuum suspension is a helpful option for very active patients.
• Suction suspension is a practical way for active patients to get the security they need.
• Suction suspension is my best answer because it is the most comfortable and cost effective suspension type for active amputees. 

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer? 

• A lot of talking to my mentor after finding the concept online and seeing patients come in with that type of prosthesis.

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?  

• I had a lot of issues when it came to finding accurate sources that weren't biased because of the company selling the products. I basically just had to go through them with my mentor and ask which sources were giving me valid information.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

• I'd definitely have to say that my mentor was the biggest source of information and my biggest fact checker on any research I found to be sketchy. Information that I found to be quite insightful were the US Government studies on suction suspension and how it affected veteran amputees and their gait when compared to pin suspension.