Subject-specific responses to an adaptive ankle prosthesis during incline walking.

ABSTRACT: Individuals with lower-limb amputation often have difficulty walking on slopes, in part due to limitations of conventional prosthetic feet. Conventional prostheses have fixed ankle set-point angles and cannot fully replicate able-bodied ankle dynamics. Microprocessor-controlled ankles have been developed to help overcome these limitations. The objective of this study was to characterize how the slope adaptation feature of a microprocessor-controlled ankle affected individual prosthesis user gait biomechanics during sloped walking. Previous studies on similar microprocessor-controlled ankles have focused on group-level results (inter-subject mean), but did not report individual subject results. Our study builds upon prior work and provides new insight by presenting subject-specific results

SUBMITTER: Lamers EP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8777384 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature