POSTURAL SWAY IN LOWER EXTREMITY AMPUTEES AND OLDER ADULTS MAY SUGGEST INCREASED FALL RISK IN AMPUTEES [PDF]
Canadian Prosthetics & Orthotics Journal, 2020 BACKGROUND: Falls can be detrimental to overall health and quality of life for lower extremity amputees. Most previous studies of postural steadiness focus on quantification of time series variables extracted from postural sway signals. While it has been
Hamid Bateni
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Arterial Stiffness in Lower Limb Amputees
Clinical Medicine Insights: Circulatory, Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine, 2011 Background A high carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) has been related to increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, but has not been previously evaluated in amputees. The aim of this study was to compare PWV between amputees and nonamputees.
Pedro Magalhães +4 more
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An Insight into the acceptable use and assessment of lower-limb running prostheses in disability sport. [PDF]
, 2013 Sports technology can be any product or system used to facilitate, train or influence an athlete’s performance. The role of prostheses used for disability sport was initially to help facilitate exercise and then ultimately, competition.
Dyer, Bryce T.J.
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Physical activity and quality of life of amputees in southern Brazil [PDF]
, 2011 Physical activity is a positive component of human health. Its effects are associated with improvement in physical, psychological and social aspects of quality of life. Physical activity is therefore an important factor in the rehabilitation of amputees.
Paulo José Barbosa Gutierres Filho +9 more
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Satisfaction with cosmesis and priorities for cosmesis design reported by lower limb amputees in the United Kingdom : instrument development and results [PDF]
, 2013 Study Design: Cross sectional questionnaire study. Background: Amputee satisfaction with cosmesis and the importance they place on cosmesis design has not been published in the literature.
Corney, Jonathan +3 more
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Ability of modal analysis to detect osseointegration of implants in transfemoral amputees : a physical model study [PDF]
, 2013 Owing to the successful use of non-invasive vibration analysis to monitor the progression of dental implant healing and stabilization, it is now being considered as a method to monitor femoral implants in transfemoral amputees.
Cairns, Nicola +3 more
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Vaulting quantification during level walking of transfemoral amputees [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Vaulting is a gait compensatory mechanism used by transfemoral amputees to assist toe clearance during the prosthetic swing phase. It is defined by a plantar flexion of the contralateral ankle during the single-limb support phase.
DREVELLE, Xavier +5 more
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Physical Activity for the Treatment of Phantom Limb Pain [PDF]
Athens Journal of Health and Medical Sciences, 2023 Phantom limb pain (PLP) is a complex and multifactorial phenomenon whereby individuals with an amputation feel intermittent pain or discomfort where the limb used to be.
Ingrid Brenner +2 more
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Student's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2021 Background: The number of amputees using prostheses is decreasing, and the victims complain that prostheses make stumps itchy and cause sores and they thus opt to go without artificial limbs.
Sulaiman Kakooza, Kizito Muwonge
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Mechanical work performed by individual limbs of transfemoral amputees during step-to-step transitions: Effect of walking velocity [PDF]
, 2014 The greater metabolic demand during the gait of people with a transfemoral amputation limits their autonomy and walking velocity. Major modifications of the kinematic and kinetic patterns of transfemoral amputee gait quantified using gait analysis may ...
Xavier Bonnet +9 more
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