A prosthesis for below-knee amputees.
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A Review of the Gait Study of Below - Knee Amputees
Over the past decades, the performance of the below-knee prosthesis has been significantly improved. However, below-knee amputees still experience many problems during locomotion. For example, they normally exhibit non-symmetric gait patterns, slower self-selected walking speeds, and higher gait metabolic rates compared to intact individuals. The objective of this project is to obtain both qual...
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A total of 175 consecutive below and above-knee amputees sent to the prosthetic workshop in Helsinki for prosthetic fitting from 32 hospitals were reviewed to determine their functional ambulation and social adaptation. The average age of the patients was 62.2 years at the time of the prosthetic fitting. The mortality was 11% (19) during the first postoperative year. One-year postoperative info...
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AN THE latter part of 1958, prothetists of the Limb and Brace Section of the U. S. Veterans Administration Prosthetics Center, New York City, were indoctrinated in the technique of fabricating the patellar-tendon-bearing (PTB) cuff-suspension below-knee prosthesis. Preliminary experience encouraged VAPC to institute in the spring of 1959 a form of clinical study. Selection of the patients fitte...
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Aims: Different studies have shown different effects of exercise on low back pain. The aim of the present study was to assess the effect of selective home-based exercises on chronic low back pain in unilateral below knee amputees. Materials and Methods: In this randomized controlled clinical trial with pretest-posttest design conducted in 2016, 53 unilateral below knee amputees with chronic lo...
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1 State Supervisor of Prosthetic Services, Ministry of Social Affairs, Helsinki, Finland. THE loss of a limb and its replacement by a prosthesis create conditions deviating from the normal. Walking is always more difficult. Loon (2) found that the energy consumption of amputees increases with the level of amputation. In the case of an above-knee amputation the effort of walking is greater than ...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Leprosy review
دوره 34 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1963