Quantifying accommodation to prosthesis interventions in persons with lower limb loss

• Published in: Gait & posture Vol. 50; no. NA; pp. 14 - 16
• Main Authors: Fiedler, Goeran, Zhang, Xueyi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier B.V 01.10.2016
• Subjects: Adaptation, Physiological; Aged; Amputation - rehabilitation; Amputees; Artificial limb; Artificial Limbs; Gait; Gait symmetry; Humans; Lower Extremity - surgery; Lower limb amputation; Male; Middle Aged; Mobile gait assessment; Orthopedics; Prosthesis Design; Prosthesis Fitting; Research protocol design; Artificial limb; Mobile gait assessment; Lower limb amputation; Research protocol design; Gait symmetry; artificial limb; mobile gait assessment; gait symmetry; research protocol design
• ISSN: 0966-6362; 1879-2219; 1879-2219
• DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2016.08.016

•Research subjects need to become accustomed to prosthesis interventions.•It is yet unknown how much time this process requires.•Accommodation is assumed to follow an exponential learning curve.•Changes in gait symmetry were used to construe such curves.•By this it may be possible to predict individ...