Effects on ankle power and sound limb load with an active prosthetic foot
| Autor: | Thomas Schmalz, Kerstin Krug, Björn Altenburg, Eva Pröbsting |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
geography
medicine.medical_specialty geography.geographical_feature_category sound limb load business.industry knee loading parameter Biomedical Engineering ankle power amputees 030229 sport sciences Power (physics) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine.anatomical_structure Physical medicine and rehabilitation medicine active prosthetic foot Medicine Ankle business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Foot (unit) Sound (geography) push-off |
| Zdroj: | Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, Vol 6, Iss 2, Pp 126-36 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2364-5504 |
| Popis: | The performance of conventional prosthetic feet depends on material and construction principles. Certain powered feet can even generate net positive mechanical work in order to provide an active push-off. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of ankle power on the gait of transfemoral amputees. For this purpose level walking of six transfemoral amputees was analysed with a basic and an active foot and three different power settings of the latter. The results show clear advantages of the active foot in comparison with a basic foot. However, a strong relation of the sound side knee loading parameters with the varied ankle power outputs of the active foot couldn’t be shown. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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