Prosthetics Research Study

Contact Us: PRS is located in the International District of Seattle, WA. Directions to our facilities can be found here.

Prosthetics Research Study maintains a variety of resources to support the goals of amputation prevention, information dissemination, prosthetic limb improvement, and functional outcomes.

Clinical Facilities

PRS houses facilities for prosthetic and orthotic treatment. This includes a 200 sqft clinical room for patient visits. The prosthetic laboratory is fully-equipped to manufacture a wide array of prosthetic components. It includes a pair of Seattle Systems D1-D socket digitizers, two Seattle Carver machines, Macintosh computers with Seattle ShapeMaker software, standard prosthetic fabrication equipment, and a vast collection of hand tools.

Educational Facilities

PRS maintains an audio-visual room to support a variety of multimedia-based educational projects. This 200 sqft lab centers about a Dell Dimension XPS workstation built for video editing and image processing. Other equipment available includes scanners (slide, film, and flatbed), photography equipment, televisions, video recorders and a wide-format plotter. The PRS library also includes a large collection of prosthetic, orthotic, rehabilitation, surgical, and therapy literature.

Research Facilities

The PRS research facilities include a 350 sqft engineering laboratory with an ATS 1101 mechanical testing machine, soldering workstation, and electrical test equipment. A 1250 sqft open area provides room for a motion analysis laboratory equipped to study level walking, hill ascent/descent, and stair ascent/descent. PRS maintains a full machine shop, including CNC machine, metal lathe, end mill, band-saw, sander, grinder, drill press, and other miscellaneous power tools.

Office Facilities

The PRS main office area includes eight offices, a meeting/presentation room, and rooms for additonal storage. An internal computer network comprised of Macintosh and personal computers (PC) provides the computer infrastructure to conduct day-to-day business, as well as to develop many of the outcome tools used at PRS.