When Garrett Hurley, a prosthetist, and Andrew Pedtke, an orthopedic surgeon, met at University of California San Francisco in 2011, both were familiar with how sockets were traditionally made.

The DIY Prosthetic Socket entry to the Hackaday Prize is all about the foundation of a useful prosthesis: a custom, form-fitting, and effective socket with a useful interface for attaching other ...

Liners fitting over your residual limb provide a barrier between your skin and the socket. Thompson encourages amputees with prosthetic limbs to try socks of various thicknesses worn over the liner to ...

If the socket of a prosthetic leg doesn't conform to the contours of the user's leg stump, pain and even skin ulcers may result. A new prosthesis should help keep that from happening, by ...

While a 12-point socket will fit the size fastener it's labeled for just as a 6-point socket will, you cannot measure between internal parallel flats because they're absent in the 12-point variety.