Gait Evaluation of Experienced Below Knee Amputees

Sheba Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Amputations, Traumatic

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00353626

SHEBA-06-4211-UG-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Post traumatic amputees with an experience of over 3 months of prosthesis use at home, without any known difficulty using the prosthesis and without stump pathology, using no assistive devices, will be examined in a 3 D computerized gait laboratory. Kinematic and kinetic parameters of gait will be obtained.

Enrollment: 9 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Post traumatic trans tibial amputees
• No stump pathology
• No assistive devices
• No technical difficulty

Exclusion criteria

• Vascular or DM background
• Stump pathology
• Gait difficulties
• Assistive device