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Determination of flexion contracture
Complete the following steps to determine the flexion contracture:
1) Have the patient lie on his or her back.
2) Ask the patient to bend the sound leg.
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2) Position the callipers on the patient's pubic
Os pubis
3) Have the patient adduct the legs (see
4) If there is flaccid, hanging soft tissue,
5) Align both thighs parallel with the callipers
bone (see fig. 5).
CAUTION! Apply sufficient pressure so
the callipers do not slip, but not so
much as to cause pain.
fig. 6).
shape the residual limb end with your
hands (see fig. 7).
Lightly push the manual slide of the cal­
lipers (743S10) against the end of the
patient's residual limb.
and read the measurement (see fig. 8).
INFORMATION: Measuring with abduc­
ted legs would lead to a measurement
deviation so the prosthetic socket
would be cut to length incorrectly.