A Professional Investment
This client has been a wearer of stock prosthetic hands for many years. She works in a very competitive field and expressed that investing in a highly realistic prosthesis would help her to look and feel more professional.
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Putting A Finger On It
A typical finger prosthesis requires at least 1.5 centimeters of remaining finger length to secure a prosthesis. In certain cases, some or all of the corresponding ray within the hand is also lost. The complete absence of a finger makes being fitted with a prosthesis decidedly more complex. While many practitioners would say that there…
Creating A Difference Worth Going the Distance
In the world of prosthetics, highly realistic work is not the standard of care. There are only approximately 150 people actively working in the field of Anaplastology worldwide. We are fortunate serve people locally, from other states and even from other countries. This partial hand client traveled from a coastal community in Africa to our…
Detail Oriented
This partial hand client is active at work and her remaining index finger is vital to her daily activities. Based on aesthetics alone, we would choose to encapsulate the finger into a solid glove to avoid extra seams. When interviewing her about her needs and expectations, we determined that a separate finger prosthesis would be…
An Article by Our Founder
An article by our founder and owner, Stefan Knauss, was recently published in O&P Edge Magazine. Stefan is always looking to utilize materials to come up with original strategies for tackling tough cases. In this article, he details how to create a socket with a seamless connection between HCR silicone rubber and hard resin laminate….
Back to Work
In our last post, we discussed a client who is heading back to school after a workplace accident. The prosthetics featured in this post belong a long time client who, about ten years ago, also needed to pursue a new career after loosing his fingers at work. He was interested in becoming a hair stylist…
It’s In the Details
We take pride in creating a complete portrait of our client’s fingers, down to the tonal variations in the nail bed. Realism alone isn’t enough, durability is key and we are always striving to improve. Just over a year ago, we developed a new, solid block acrylic nail which maintains color better and is less…