Prosthetic assemblies for lower limb amputees are highly engineered and consist of several components each with its own failure mechanism. This paper describes the dynamic testing of HDPE rotational moulded sockets in a specially designed machine which mimics normal gait. Thus the components are subjected to all main loadings occurring during a stride such as axial loading and A-P bending about...

Energy storage and return (ESR) feet have long been assumed to promote metabolically efficient amputee gait. However, despite being prescribed for approximately 30 yr, there is limited evidence that they achieve this desired function. Here, we report a meta-analysis of data from 10 studies that met our selection criteria to determine whether amputee walking with ESR feet is more efficient than ...

From 1977 through 1980, 251 veterans from the San Francisco Bay Area received permanent lower-extremity prostheses at the two local Veterans Administration hospitals. For a survey, 213 of the 251 were contacted and 179 of them (84%) responded to written or telephone questionnaires concerning their prosthetic problems and complaints and their recommendations regarding prosthetic care. Seventy-fo...

Objective: to investigate the changes associated with age in gait characteristics and dynamic weight bearing pattern of sound and prosthetic limb of persons with unilateral amputation. Participant: two groups of seven young (24±3.8 years) and seven elderly unilateral amputee (71±6 years) were selected for this study. Setting: both groups walked at their self selected speed over a 20 second dura...

Consistent hashing has played an indispensable role in cloud infrastructure, although its load balancing performance is not necessarily perfect. long remained the most widely used method despite many methods being proposed to improve because these trade off against consistency, memory usage, lookup performance, and/or fault-tolerance. This article presents Structured Allocation-based Hashing (S...