Personalized design of ankle-foot prosthesis based on computer modeling of amputee locomotion

• Published in: Assistive technology Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 100 - 108
• Main Authors: Gharini, Mohammad, Mohammadi Moghaddam, Majid, Farahmand, Farzam
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Taylor & Francis 03.03.2020
• Subjects: Adult; Amputees - rehabilitation; Ankle; Artificial Limbs; below-knee amputee; Biomechanical Phenomena; Foot; Gait - physiology; Humans; Locomotion - physiology; locomotion model; Lower Extremity; Male; Middle Aged; optimal damping coefficients; Patient-Specific Modeling; Prosthesis Design; locomotion model; optimal damping coefficients; below-knee amputee

This study proposes a computer modeling approach to find the optimal damping coefficients of the viscoelastic ankle-foot prostheses for each specific amputee. A two-dimensional locomotion model was developed for a transtibial amputee and personalized using his body measures and the reference gait pa...