It’s not about replacing a limb and walking again, it’s about maximizing comfort and quality of life – to live life to the fullest.
NASA ROOTS
Founder Jay Martin, CP, FAAOP was invited by NASA to help create Ironman-like exoskeleton suits for space and military applications. Through working with NASA he discovered and created counter-intuitive new methods of how to make prosthetics more comfortable. He then set out to create the most comfortable sockets on earth… and the Socket-less Socket™ was born. Now thousands of amputees around the world are gaining quality of life back through more comfortable sockets.
Comfort is not Optional
We surveyed hundreds of amputees, and found that over 7 out of 10 claim their quality of life is limited by discomfort from their conventional prosthetic sockets. The conforming Socket-less Socket™ matches to the ever-changing human body, versus the body having to match to a rigid bucket.
We’ve eliminated a static socket shape, rigid brims, and encapsulated heat and socks. Our life-changing sockets have real-time adjustability to be as comfortable as a socket should be. As the user of your prosthetic, you have a choice of what type of socket you wear.
We are called to care for the poor. Innovation is how we do so in more efficient and effective ways.
Our DNA
From the 30 million amputees in developing nations without access to any prosthetics, to the 2 million amputees in the U.S. struggling with uncomfortable rigid sockets, our technology uniquely makes a comfortable socket reachable for all.
Our Mission is to replace the antiquated rigid socket status quo and make conforming and comfortable prosthetic sockets reachable to all amputees around the world. 95% of amputees (30 million) in developing nations do not have access to prosthetics due to a lack of practitioners and expensive fabrication equipment needed to make conventional rigid sockets. The few that do typically get a 1970’s-era hard socket, which is or will become uncomfortable, limiting mobility. We make comfortable sockets accessible for those who otherwise don’t have access. Our modular Socket-less Socket™ uniquely offers the same comfort for those in developing nations as the fortunate who have medical coverage for our state-of-the-art prosthetics locally.
A Paradigm Shift in Accessibility
Our Socket-Soft™ fitting software gives amputees in the furthest reaches of the world access to comfortable prosthetics. Socket-Soft™ equips and enables locals in developing nations to successfully fit our socket technology without the need of formal prosthetist training or expensive fabrication equipment. In conjunction with our modular Socket-less Socket™ technology, the Socket-Soft™ fitting software converts simple limb measurements to a defined Socket-less Socket™ assembly configuration through our simple but sophisticated algorithm-based web-app. The Socket-less Socket™ design used for developing nations is a low cost, high-comfort socket that can be assembled using only simple hand tools.
