The high incidence of reports on lower extremity amputees who do not have access to a prosthesis and the use of disruptive technologies as an alternative to the problems associated with the traditional construction technique of these devices were the main motivations for this research. Its objective is to develop an anatomical socket or socket that will be used in a lower limb prosthesis for a transfemoral amputee patient, using digital fabrication (scanner, CAD-CAM software and FDM printer), and to study its feasibility as a low-cost method. For the purposes of the above, a bibliographic review was carried out and an experimental technological work methodology was determined, focused on a clinical case of a patient with transfemoral amputation. This way, a specific socket for the amputee was modeled and manufactured and three cases of critical load (heel strike, medium support and take-off) were simulated, as well as surface tests on the patient. Finally, an evaluation of the construction costs of a complete prosthesis was carried out and the final price was compared with the prices of similar prostheses in the current market, determining that it is possible to obtain anatomical transfemoral sockets for lower limb prostheses at low cost using disruptive technologies.
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