Abstract
After lower limb amputation, the primary challenge is to facilitate the patient’s adoption of a prosthetic limb seamlessly, without encountering complications or discomfort. Elevated stress levels within the residual limb, experienced when wearing the socket and while standing or walking, contribute to patient discomfort. As an initial step in this study, we developed a finite element model of above-knee amputation. Additionally, we designed a prototype orthopedic implant composed of several parts, with the lower section featuring a honeycomb structure aimed at absorbing and diminishing stresses at the interface of the residual limb and prosthetic. In this study, finite element models with and without orthopedic implants were analyzed to assess the feasibility and impact of incorporating a honeycomb structure within the implants on stress distribution, particularly at the stump-prosthetic interface. Models with honeycomb-structured implants, at varying densities, showed a reduction in interface stress to approximately 2.15e-2 MPa and 2.01e-2 MPa, compared to 4.5e-2 MPa in model without honeycomb structure in the implant and 7.97e-2 MPa in models without any implants.
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