Gait evaluation of a transfemoral prosthetic simulator
| Autor: | David Nielen, Edward D. Lemaire, Marie Andrée Paquin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Artificial Limbs Walking Prosthesis Design Prosthesis Gait (human) Gait training Amputees medicine Humans Gait Simulation Rehabilitation business.industry Biomechanics Reproducibility of Results Sagittal plane Biomechanical Phenomena medicine.anatomical_structure Amputation Evaluation Studies as Topic Physical therapy Canes Female Ankle business human activities |
| Zdroj: | Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation. 81(6) |
| ISSN: | 0003-9993 |
| Popis: | Lemaire ED, Nielen D, Paquin MA. Gait evaluation of a transfemoral prosthetic simulator. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2000;81:840-3. Objective: To test a prosthetic simulator developed to allow persons without amputation to walk like a person with a transfemoral (TF) amputation. Patients: Five able-bodied subjects; comparison with data from the literature on persons with TF amputations. Setting: Motion analysis laboratory. Design: Two 45- to 60-minute gait training sessions before subjects walked along a 10-meter walkway. There were 6 trials: 3 walking with a cane, 3 without a cane. Main Objective Measures: Sagittal plane kinematic and kinetic analysis of ankle, knee, and hip: angular velocity, joint moment, and power. Results: Kinematic and kinetic analyses showed that joint mechanics during walking were similar between the test subjects and comparative results from persons with TF amputations (reported in the literature). Test subjects walked slower and moved their hip and knee joints faster (higher angular velocity values during the terminal swing) than the TF amputee subjects, although these results were not statistically significant ( p Conclusion: These results support the use of a TF prosthetic simulator to help health care professionals experience the process of fitting the prosthesis from the client's perspective. © 2000 by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation |
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