The FCCGZS belongs in prosthetic and orthotic clinics, limb-fitting centres and rehabilitation services that fit upper-limb prostheses and finish them for appearance. Its users are people who wear a prosthetic hand after amputation at or below the wrist, or with a congenital difference of the hand, and who want that hand to look like their own.
Prosthetists and prosthetic technicians are the people who order and fit it. Because the glove is custom in both size and colour, the work starts with the wearer. The measurements of the prosthetic hand and the shade of the skin are taken and passed to Wonderful, and the glove is produced for that one hand. At the fitting, the zip is opened so the silicone can be worked over the prosthetic fingers and palm, then closed so the glove settles snugly at the wrist.
Population fit is where the FCCGZS earns its place. Services see a wide range of hand sizes, from slight adult hands to broad ones, and a wide range of skin tones. A made-to-measure glove meets both at once, for every wearer. The short length suits wearers whose forearm is covered by the socket or by clothing, and it keeps the glove concentrated on the hand, the part people notice first.
Typical uses include finishing a new passive or cosmetic hand prosthesis before handover, replacing a worn glove on an existing hand, and providing a covering matched in size and shade for a wearer whose hands fall outside the usual sizes. In each case the aim is the same: a hand that reads as the wearer's own at a handshake, across a table or in a photograph.