As a new left above the knee (LAK) amputee, I became totally unwilling to endure the unbearable amount of pain I had to suffer every time the nurses or doctors wanted to change my bandages and inspect my amputation site until I discovered the idea creating a pre-stretching "sleeve" by using a plastic Tupperware bowl with the bottom removed!

Anyone who has had an amputation surgery and then had the nurses try to get the elastic compression shrinker sock back on your new wound without making you jump through your shorts is fortunate.  After one painful experience I said "enough was enough!"  I had friend take a plastic Tupperware bowl large enough in diameter to fit over my residual limb (in this case my thigh) and cut the entire bottom out of it.  From that point on, when it was time for the bandages and shrinker sock to go back on, here is what we did using a modified Tupperware bowl.  There are many sizes to choose from and the best ones are round with straight sides.

Technique:
1.  Select a plastic bowl of the proper diameter to fit the residual limb and cut the bottom out.
2.  Carefully put the gauze dressing bandages back on the wound site.
3.  Pre-stretch the compression shrinker sock stocking by sliding it on the modified Tupperware bowl (with the bottom cut out of it) which in effect turns it into a smooth plastic shrinker sock "sleeve."  The plastic lid can just be discarded.
4.  With the shrinker sock pre-stretched on the plastic sleeve, simply slide the Tupperware bowl gently over the amputation site until the bottom end of the shrinker sock is in place over the gauze bandages and automatically begins to slide off of the sleeve ring.
5.  Keep sliding the Tupperware bowl up your leg until the shrinker sock slips off and into place on your leg.
6.  Finally, just simply slide the bare Tupperware bowl (sleeve) right back off of your leg.

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