The FCCGZL is fitted in prosthetic and orthotic clinics, limb-fitting centres and upper-limb rehabilitation services where prostheses are finished for appearance as well as function. It serves people who wear a prosthetic hand and forearm after amputation below the elbow or at the wrist, and people with a congenital limb difference, who want the visible part of the prosthesis to look like their own arm.
Patient experience is where this glove makes its case. Much of daily life happens with the forearm on show: short sleeves in warm weather, rolled cuffs at a desk or in a kitchen, a t-shirt at the weekend. The FCCGZL carries the wearer's shade past the wrist and up the forearm, so no line shows where hand meets arm. Many wearers find that one continuous arm is what lets them stop planning their clothes around the prosthesis.
Prosthetists and prosthetic technicians handle the order and the fitting. The wearer's prosthesis is measured along its hand and forearm, the skin shade is recorded, and both are passed to Wonderful so the glove is produced for that person. At the fitting, the zip is opened so the long silicone glove can be drawn over the prosthetic hand and up the forearm, then closed so the glove sits snugly along its length.
Typical uses include finishing a new below-elbow prosthesis before handover, replacing a worn long glove, and moving a wearer who has spent summers in long sleeves to a covering made for bare arms. The aim in each case is an arm that looks like the wearer's own in daylight and at close range.