Robotic lower limb prostheses can improve the quality of life for amputees. Development of such devices, currently dominated by long prototyping periods, could be sped up by predictive simulations. In contrast to some amputee simulations which track experimentally determined non-amputee walking kinematics, here, we explicitly model the human-prosthesis interaction to produce a prediction of the...

Pain synaesthetes experience pain in a presensitised region when observing or imagining another person in pain. We conducted an upper-limb embodiment study using a modified rubber-hand illusion in which lower-limb amputees originally participated as control subjects for the upper-limb amputees. While we found all subjects experienced topographic illusory sensations, we also serendipitously foun...

The numbers of lower limb amputees participating in recreational activity date back more than 25 years. Previous studies have shown that 60% of lower limb amputees participated in recreational activities, including sports. To date, research in The Netherlands into sports participation of this specific amputee population is insufficient. The purpose of the reported survey was to investigate the ...

Although the amputee and his remaining limb present many interesting and challenging problems, no detailed study exists of the progression of vascular changes in the remaining limb of the amputee . Goldner (1) in 1960 stated that the second leg of the unilateral diabetic amputee shares the fate of the first rather often and relatively soon . A somewhat similar fate can be assumed for the patien...

Based on a mathematical model of the human gait, a Matlab 2010a algorithm is presented to predict the reaction forces and moments in a particular point along the socket linked to the lower limb of a transfemoral amputee. The model takes the inertia developed due the swing of the limb during the gait into consideration. A validation of the results is made with the data obtained in a gait lab, an...

OBJECTIVE To analyze hospitalization for lower extremity amputations (LEAs) and amputee rates in persons with and without diabetes in Italy. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS All patients with LEAs in the period 2001-2010 were identified analyzing the National Hospital Discharge Record database. For each year, amputee and hospitalization rates for LEAs were calculated either for persons with diabet...

Abstract Introduction To identify the preoperative factors that influence functional rehabilitation after Major Lower Limb (MLL) amputation. Method This retrospective study analyzed all patients referred post-amputation to an amputee centre over a period of 1 year. The level outcome at 6 and 12 months were recorded using SIGAM (Special Interest Group in Amputee Medicine) grading. Data on variou...