The vacuum assisted liner system is for use with a prosthetic device to be
attached to a residual limb. The liner system includes a hypobaric
prosthetic liner, and a porous wicking material layer to surround at
least a portion of the residual limb and define a regulated vacuum
environment between the hypobaric prosthetic liner and the residual limb.
The hypobaric prosthetic liner has at least one passageway therethrough
defining at least one vacuum port, such as an inlet port and outlet port,
in fluid communication with the regulated vacuum environment. Internal
liner passageways may connect the inlet and outlet ports to the regulated
vacuum environment. A vacuum regulation device may include an electric
vacuum pump or a motion activated pump connected to the outlet port.