Hi, I'm Garrett and this is "You got this", a series to dive it into what it's like
being an amputee and how to make the most of it. How to work with the parts.
How to make the adjustments you need to wear different shoes or do different
activities and all that kind of stuff. For this first episode we're going to
start with just kind of a simple breakdown of a standard leg. Now, I am a
below-knee amputee, so I still have a knee they also above-knee amputees are making
cheese I can really only speak to what I know and everything DT is so different
because it depends on so many variables like the length of your limb your
fitness level and just countless other things so I'm just gonna focus on what I
know and the green salt but know there's so much more to it than what I'm able to
show so the first piece is cold lighter lighter and the beads go on your
residual limb and they can help control sweat you have to wear them like I find
any difference and if I'm doing something like mountain bike there's
nowhere to live knowing when sweat a lot or everyone and it makes a big difficult
to control the sweat is the next piece is your liner this is the rubber that in
cases your leg and because it's Robert it does not breathe and as a result
sweat can be a huge foam and we have a whole episode discussing how many days
this gives you a little bit of cushion and padding if we otherwise really perk
in your socket because your sockets generally a little hard in addition to
your line wire you'll have socks different sizes different shapes shapes
lengths and these can help control residual limb volume for short
so over the course of the day your residual limb can kind of shrink or grow
or swell and depending on that it will affect how your socket fits and so as
your limb drinks you can add socks to filling the space and ensure you still
have a good snug fit in your socket or if you have too many socks and you're
feeling like there's too much friction in your socket your legs rubbing wrong
it's hurting you can remove socks and make some space and so that's what those
help you do and you'll usually have a bunch of those and go through them they
just go over your landline the next pieces are the socket and the sleep and
sickle see here my other leg the socket Steve goes over it and it's rubber on
the inside and material the outside so clothes can slide over it and then it
goes up your leg and it gets a seal so you get a suction seal if you get up in
size holiness your leg don't stay on its you have to be really careful with this
the socket you have an outer socket and sometimes you have an inner sock it as
well you know sock it's a little softer a little more malleable and if you
process some cushion in your socket because a spot that hurts or something
like that so after the socket you may or may not have a post with an inverted
pyramid adapter depending on your limb length and your foot height some feet or
shorter or taller obviously this one is really tall so I don't even need a post
but that's the part that could be involved you know flip
this one is specifically a left foot some can go on either foot but many most
probably are designed for a specific side and you'll see - because it's
carbon not sharp sharp but it's sharp enough that if you just put your foot
shell directly on this would eventually kind of work through and we're after
foot shop so for that you know it's kind of like a nylon sock that goes over the
carbon fiber foot to protect your foot shell and this together here this goes
on like a sock and you then get your foot up I'll use a shoehorn
here
that's done and so then your foot would look something like this host and this
is something you don't want to take lightly when you're assembling or
disassembling if you have a slot the feet you know will usually pull it up is
so dedicated just to kind of think through adjusting and swapping feet and
working with converting here so there I've got the foot now the foot needs a
socket you'll notice myself it has a little extra piece up here and we'll
dive into some of those things more later that was a protective sleeve from
getting holes in it and rubbing on the carbon and now it's starting you'll
notice that these generally will stand up pretty well by themselves
you got a shoe on really close and that's just the nature of how they're
balanced and built so the next part is asleep so this is always a little
trickier
there you have it and just for kicks we can see how it would look to swap legs
so you can see I'm learning a couple songs right now have a line line line
and liner and it sucks so I have to fly here and just kind of put it in my
little protection sleeve up hold up swap legs so the triple lose to it
that's the basics well diamond is so much more we're gonna
talk about mitigating sweat wearing different shoes different types of
sockets and suspension systems we'll talk about the tools you need we'll talk
about different types of feet and how they affect how you can move lifestyle
better for running by somewhere better for walking we'll talk about going to
the beach go to the pool how do you manage all of these little things that
normally you don't even have to think twice about but with a prosthetic leg
things get a little bit different so always hard usually to ladder
inconvenience will really dive deep into a lot of these things and talk about the
tactics you can use to get the most out of it still enjoy your time doing these
activities you used to love and still here so that's it thanks for watching
you guys