Ossur Upper X Silicone Liners
With my Ossur Upper X liners always after a few months the textile gray fabric comes lose and detaches from the silicone. That usually marks the death of these liners as it is hard if not impossible to keep that lose space clean. Dirt accumulates, detachement advances and mold grows. Humidity does not evaporate and the liner gets yucky.
Ossur told me to tell my technician. So I did. And my technician just sells me a new one and nothing has been understood or properly taken care of. Obviously because both earn bucks from selling silicone (cheap to manufacture, check farmers' equipment with silicone liners for udders) and not from keeping a product in steady shape. But for me every time is time and effort and that accumulates.
How do I prevent this? How can detached textile be glued back? What products are recommended? or, what did you try that did not work? I will investigate this now because it gets on my nerves.
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Comment by Carol Millar on July 27, 2012 at 4:47am -
There is normally an adhesive that comes together with the Otto liner and I apply it to the edges when I receive a new one and it prevents the grey fabric from detaching from the liner.
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Comment by Wolf Schweitzer on February 24, 2012 at 5:44pm -
Thanks. Ossur told me twice they can get me that stuff and send it to my orthopedic technician. My OT says he never saw it they must be lying. They never mailed me anything. Their customer service is worse than Otto Bock's as far as my experience is concerned. - - - But then, I observed that their stock liner shape is wrong for all people that wear them. Their liners are systematically wrong. People get congestion eczema. All do. Not just me. All. No one complains. So Ossur keeps selling cheap liners for dream prices. - - So now I am in the process of getting custom liners and shape matching new sockets. There are a few new features that custom liners offer so will report back with insights once we're there. That, however, may take ages ; )
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Comment by William Theinert on February 20, 2012 at 6:18pm -
They have an adhesive listed here http://www.ossur.com/lisalib/getfile.aspx?itemid=19255
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