BACKGROUND The ability to return to running and sports participation after lower extremity limb salvage has not been well documented previously. Although the ability to ambulate without pain or assistive devices is generally a criteria for a good limb salvage outcome, many patients at our institution have expressed a desire to return to a more athletic lifestyle to include running and sports pa...

The outcomes of prosthetic rehabilitation after lower limb loss are, in large part, affected by the effectiveness provided gait retraining. noted prevalence adverse long-term effects, such as further joint and muscle degeneration, suggests that traditional programs have limitations. Recent advances technology understanding motor learning promise potential for better retraining interventions. Th...

The aim was to review the literature on factors affecting prosthetic rehabilitation of older vascular lower extremity amputees. A search of the literature was carried out using the MEDLINE, EMBASE and CINAHL databases up to September 2010. Only original English language articles were accepted. Relevant studies were reviewed and selected based on prespecified inclusion criteria namely: age more ...

Post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) is a process resulting from direct forces applied to a joint that cause injury and degenerative changes. An estimated 12% of all symptomatic osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip, knee, and ankle can be attributed to a post-traumatic cause. Neuromuscular prehabilitation is the process of improving neuromuscular function to prevent development of PTOA after an initi...

Towing sleds while walking is a popular resistance exercise for the healthy athlete. One reason for the popularity of sled towing is that it is widely believed to be a ‘functional’ exercise. Preliminary research suggests towing while walking can increases lower extremity moment impulses; however whether towing a sled utilizes the same coordination patterns as un-resisted walking is unknown. Whi...

BACKGROUND AND SIGNIFICANCE Standard gait analysis techniques can be cumbersome and time consuming. Subjects must walk at a set speed, place their feet squarely on one or more force plates, and data normally cannot be collected for successive strides. Temporal, kinetic, and kinematic information collected during formal gait analyses can also be obtained from subjects walking on a motorized trea...

Introduction: Gait retraining is a novel management strategy which has shown ability to reduce pain and the peak knee adduction moment (KAM) (a surrogate measure of medial load) in people with osteoarthritis. However, no published study compared gait placebo change does not affect KAM). Therefore, it unknown whether improvement due KAM reduction. Our primary aim was determine joint loading outc...

Varus knee alignment is a risk factor for medial knee osteoarthritis and is associated with high knee adduction moments. Therefore, reducing the knee adduction moment in varus-aligned individuals with otherwise healthy knees may reduce their risk for developing osteoarthritis. A gait modification that improves dynamic knee alignment may reduce the adduction moment, and systematic training may l...

Lower extremity powered exoskeletons help people with movement disorders to perform daily activities and are used increasingly in gait retraining rehabilitation. Studies of often focus on technological aspects such as actuators, control methods, energy effects gait. Limited research has been conducted how different mechanical design parameters can affect the user. In this paper, we study weight...