Choosing the correct liner for your patient starts with examining their unique characteristics and the condition of their residual limb. Factors such as limb shape, skin condition, activity level, and comfort requirements are essential for finding the best fit.

To support clinicians, we’ve created an intuitive liner selection tool that guides prosthetists through assessing patient-specific needs and stump characteristics, ensuring a precise and personalized liner choice.

Explore the selection tool to enhance your decision-making and improve patient satisfaction!

In the section above, we covered how to select the right liner based on patient characteristics and limb condition. With a wide range of options available—varying in suspension methods, thickness, material, and design—you can match each liner’s features to the patient’s activity level, skin sensitivity, and mobility needs. Ready to explore the options in more detail?

After selecting the right liner for a patient, ensuring a proper fit requires accurate measurements and careful trimming. Measurements should reflect the patient's residual limb, considering any unique features or changes in volume. Once measured, the liner needs to be trimmed to align closely with the body, avoiding areas of discomfort. To support this watch the videos that provide step-by-step guidance on measurement techniques and trimming methods, ensuring a proper and comfortable fit.

The various properties and functions of the skin are disrupted in high-stress areas by wearing a prosthesis:

• In any prosthetic socket, the skin is subjected to pressure and friction.
• The skin’s ability to regulate the temperature is affected as well.
• This combination of increased perspiration and stress leads to skin irritation and the growth of bacteria.

To avoid additionally stressing the skin, thorough cleaning and proper care of the skin and thus the residual limb are important. Proper cleaning, wearing and renewal of the liner comes in addition to this. To fully realize the potential of a prosthesis, the wearing and caring of skin and liner is essential!

As a professional, it is important to inform your patients about these practices. By guiding them effectively, you can help ensure they achieve the full functional and health benefits of their prosthesis. The below sections give you a guide for this.
Additionally, in the resources section at the bottom of the site, you will find documents and videos that you can offer to your patients, providing them with a convenient reference for all they need to know about liners including why proper liner wear and care is essential.