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Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Translated Title

矽膠套筒抗流汗效應之定性研究

Abstract

In clinical prosthetic experience, profuse sweating was a major problem when conventional sockets or inserts were used. However, the newly developed silicon suction socket could prevent that. We doubted that these differences came from the different nature of the silicon, pelite and polyethylene. So using the starch iodine sweating test, the forearm skins of the twenty normal subjects were sealed with a piece of 2cm×2cm×0.3cm silicon, pelite or polyethylene respectively. Surprisingly, not only silicon but also pelite and polyethylene could inhibit sweating. This meant that decreased sweating of the silicon suction socket might not be due to the chemical property of the silicon, instead, due to the little amout of the dead space between the silicon socket and skin. In other word, the more intimate sealing existed between the socket and skin, the less sweating. This was the reason why conventional inserts, made of pelite or polyethylene, could not prevent sweating clinically though, they did decrease sweating under the experimental intimate sealed situations. In addition, the quantitative sweating test will be applied in the further related studies because the starch iodine sweating test is qualitative only.

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English

First Page

29

Last Page

33

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