Skip this place if you're looking for a prosthetic leg that fits even a little.
This place is a joke & can't make legs to save their lives. I had 5 legs with this company and none of them fit other than a check socket that "sort of" fits I've been wearing for over a year because this facility can't make any other legs correctly. I kept having to go back to the check socket after mistakes were made over and over again.
Each & every time I would go into this place the experience got worse & worse.
I was given a leg that had suction AND a pin in one leg m. Of course the leg did not work as this isn't even a possibility in a leg.
Another leg they brought in to me with prosthetic leg stuck off to the side of the ankle/foot with a piece of metal so nothing was even, and prosthetist Salim legitimately wanted to send me home with the horrible contraption they had come up with.
2 other legs had failed valve stems that never did suction properly, which has left me with a whistling leg so loud it wakes members up in the house if I have to put the leg on in the middle of the night. No suction means the leg always pistons and does not fit properly. Very uncomfortable.
The one pin lock system they had me in felt as if I was walking on a pin all day long, and was unwearable, and caused sores to my stump.
The prosthetist talks a big game and spouts how he is the world's best prosthetist. Yet fails to even measure legs properly. I had to go back on multiple occasions to have him adjust the height of the leg. He would tell me that there was "no possible way" the leg could be the wrong height because he himself made sure it was perfect. When we urged him to please get a level to check, the leg was 1.5" height difference.
Another time I had to purchase more material for my prosthetic leg to be made since the leg they created with a pin locking system & suction system could not function. I had to pay extra to buy/ship the material to them on top of already purchasing the material the first time around.
I stuck it out with this company for two years thinking that one day, the prosthetist's claims of being the "best" prosthetist available would come true. This never occurred. Each consecutive appointment was a disappointment & it became a joke in our household not to get any hopes up about a leg working out since each visit was worse, and worse. We ignored the inflated ego, and patiently awaited a leg that would even vaguely fit, and unfortunately, it never did happen. I would have been satisfied with a leg comfortable enough to wear 2 hours a day.
Valve failures, legs being built incorrectly, working parts not being in-stock/available, & a lack of a simple ability to listen to a patient's concerns & just talk over them and tell them there is no possible way the patient's own experience as an amputee is true since you the prosthetist know/are the very best the prosthetist the industry has to offer.
Hanger Clinic is a renowned business, yet this location is suffering terribly in basic skill/education on how to build legs, and the very basic skill to listen to patient concerns.
I received my medical records and not once was it notated all of the horrible screw ups this place has made. Rather Salim (prosthetist) noted that again, he is a great prosthetist and it is the client's fault the legs haven't worked. Which is sad, since I have no control over building legs with a pin lock/suction combo, I have no control over all of the failed valves, and I certainly have no control over a prosthetist not willing to listen when I say there is a height difference, and am told "there is no possible way I made a mistake."
In a clinical setting, it is important to listen to client concerns. I hope this prosthetist learns to check his massive ego for future patient's well-being. (If you're the best, you don't need to tell everyone you are the best. Your work will speak for itself. Just sayin'.)
Hopefully Hanger Clinic will do better and pay for continued education for the folks who make legs in this location, and perhaps they will have a gentle talk with their prosthetists about listening to client concerns. It would do the company a world of good. read more