Prosthetic shops: the component still, never a generated residual limb

Catalog the device. Generating a customer's residual limb is a likeness problem, not a style.

A prosthetic shop sells hardware: a knee, a foot, a liner, a socket adapter, a pylon with a catalog number on the carton. The clip that books a consult is that part, in light you already approved, moving just enough to read as real. It is not a generated stump, not a generated gait, not a photoreal fitter explaining residual-limb care. Those are a private body and a health persona. Neither is a look you can prompt.

The component is the SKU

Photograph the device on a clean table or in the jig you already use for the catalog. Same angle you would send a CPO. That still is the contract: finish, bolt pattern, brand mark, the cut you actually stock. AI product video is the door for that job — reference the real part from two or three clean angles so the model cannot quietly swap a cousin knee.

Motion is allowed. Invention is not. A slow orbit, a tilt that shows the pyramid adapter, a liner rolling on a last that is the last in the photo — those are camera and physics on a locked plate. "A below-knee residual with a new socket, patient smiling" is a new person. You do not own that body. You do not get to mint one because the feed likes transformation stories.

If the still is a phone snap with a customer's limb in frame, crop until only the component remains, or shoot again. Do not prompt the limb out and hope the model rebuilds the table.

Hours, a SKU, a city, "in-clinic eval" — overlay after picture lock, not glyphs the model paints on the housing. A video row that typesets a part number will invent a cousin part number.

Residual limb is likeness, not a grade

A deepfake of a private person is not a style. A residual limb is that rule applied to a body the feed will still recognise. Private means not a public figure. A patient, a walk-in, a staff member whose residual you photographed "for the before," a reference pulled from a clinic photo. If someone who knows them would say that is their limb, you have a replica problem. Calling it medical b-roll does not move TikTok, YouTube, or a right-of-publicity statute.

Do not:

• Upload a fitting photo and ask image-to-video to "anonymise" the limb.
• Prompt a photoreal residual as an extra in the background of a shop tour.
• Age a school photo, blur a face, and keep the stump. The body is still the person.
• Generate a "generic amputee" from a real reference and call it a character.

Minors are a hard stop. No synthetic child, no "aged-up" residual from a paediatric chart photo.

What you can ship: the component still; an empty fitting bench; a socket on a stand; type you authored. If you need a human in frame, film a person who signed a replica grant that covers generation, or do not put a body in the generate. A standard model release for a photoshoot is not that grant.

Facility plate, not a clinician persona

Synthetic presenters on health and finance are a YPP kill. A constructed prosthetist, "doctor," or fitter telling the viewer how to manage a residual limb, when to sleeve, what to do with phantom pain, is the third inauthentic-content bucket: AI persona, health domain, expert advice. Labelling the face AI does not leave the bucket. A talking generate of a clinician is the wrong row even if the mouth never says a brand.

The shop ad is the empty bench, the drawer of liners, the boxed foot. Overlay the line you would print on a card. Do not seat a generated patient. Do not invent a residual so the socket has somewhere to sit.

/for/physical-therapists is a different page: recovery-arc clinician content, day-1 versus week-6, exercise form. That is a practice talking about rehabilitation. This listing is the device SKU. Do not rewrite the PT page as a prosthetic commercial, and do not import their recovery-journey format onto a generated limb. /for/podiatrists is symptom-search for a clinic. A prosthetic shop is neither of those audience routes. OEM cut versus clinician page.

Product motion, then type

Once the component still is honest, animate it. Product video and image-to-video both start from the file. Prompt only the move: hold, then a quarter turn; camera locked; no new hardware. If the generate redraws the pyramid, the carbon layup, or the brand stamp, you sold a different SKU. Throw it out. Do not "fix it in the prompt" by describing the part again — that is how the model argues with the pixels.

The test is rude and useful. List the last ten clips. If eight of them needed a body to explain the part, you have been making health personas. Catalog the device. Leave the limb in the fitting room, on a person who is actually there.

FAQ

Can I generate a blurred residual so the socket has a place to sit?

No. Blur is not a grant. A residual that still reads as a person is a likeness. Photograph the socket on a stand, or photograph a cleared fitting with a replica clause that names generation. Do not mint tissue.

Is a photoreal fitter safer if I add "not medical advice" in the prompt?

The face is still a constructed health presenter. Residual-limb care is still health. YPP looks at persona plus advice, not at a disclaimer string. Hold the hardware.

How is this different from the physical-therapist /for page?

/for/physical-therapists is clinic recovery content. This page is the prosthetic component as a catalog still. Do not borrow their before/after patient arc and generate the "before."

Where do the hours and the SKU go?

On the locked clip, as authored overlay, after the part holds. Do not ask a video model to letter a part number onto carbon. Wrong glyphs are a different device.