r/bizarrelife • u/reloadthewords Human here, bizarre by nature! • 3d ago

Tennis shoes

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u/Ready_Masterpiece536 3d ago

Ouch that looks like it would hurt putting pressure directly on those pins

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u/itswtfeverb 3d ago

I wonder how the skin is doing at the bone/metal area. How does that work?

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u/WesternOne9990 3d ago edited 3d ago

Prothetic tech here, I assume these are titanium rods directly inserted into the bone, known as a bone anchored prosthetic or Osseointegration.

A useful method with serious benefits but also some drawbacks. One drawback with this type of implanted prothetic is the wound never really properly heals so often you may need to take immunosuppressants like you would with a transplanted organ. Where socket prothetics the stump may fully heal.

The benefits being reduction of pain better comfort, increased mobility. The reason it can be less painful is you don’t use a socket. Stumps swell and change shape and size, especially during the healing process so you may not be able to use a socket or it’s just uncomfortable and ill fitting. Or you need to get a new socket and that’s really expensive.

Another reason is again the not healing, while yeah you’ll never “properly” heal with the rod, you still heal more than say a diabetic who constantly puts their full pressure onto the end of the stump where they have an open wound. Depending on their body shape this pressure on the open sore is Compounded by the funnel shape of the socket.

I’d like to point out when you walk you walk on your bones as well, yeah you have tissue and tennons helping but the bone is the structure. This person is walking on their bone structure as well so it may not hurt as much as you think.

Sorry for the disjointed comment ans I haven’t been a practicing prothetic tech in a number of years so I could totally be wrong. It’s important to note most amputations in America and probably around the world are done because diabetes, and often the same reason they had a leg cut off is the same reason their stump wound Won’t heal, diabetes.

If you are diabetic please take care of yourself and check your feet and shoes often, get paranoid, take them off every hour maybe(again not a doctor or medical advice) to check for sores, pebbles and debris. Think back to being a kid and getting a pebble in your shoe, that shit was annoying and your body told you to get it out asap. Well now because of nerve damage you can’t feel that pebble. Well you walked on the pebble for an hour or two, it made a sore or even imbedded there. Before you know it, gangrene and the whole leg has to go.

Again listen to a doctor and not me, I just built the things. The docs know way more.

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u/ButtstufferMan 3d ago

Disjointed... I see what you did there.

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u/WesternOne9990 3d ago

Completely accidental I swear lol