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Loading rates in unilateral transfemoral amputees with running-specific prostheses across a range of speeds
- Source :
- Clinical Biomechanics. 75:104999
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- Background Understanding the potential risks of running-related injuries in unilateral transfemoral amputees contributes to the development and implementation of the injury prevention programme in running gait rehabilitation. We investigated the vertical ground reaction force loading in unilateral transfemoral amputees who used running-specific prostheses across a range of running speeds. Methods Ten unilateral transfemoral amputees and ten non-amputees performed running trials on an instrumented treadmill at the incremental speeds of 30, 40, 50, and 60% of their maximum acquired speeds. Per-step and cumulative vertical instantaneous loading rates were calculated from the vertical ground reaction force in the affected, unaffected, and non-amputated control limbs. Findings Both the per-step and cumulative vertical instantaneous loading rates of the unaffected limbs in runners with unilateral transfemoral amputation were significantly greater than the affected and non-amputated control limbs at all speeds. Interpretation The results of the present study suggest that runners with unilateral transfemoral amputation may be exposed to a greater risk of running-related injuries in their unaffected limbs compared to the affected and non-amputated control limbs.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Biophysics
Artificial Limbs
Instrumented treadmill
Running
Weight-Bearing
03 medical and health sciences
Running gait
0302 clinical medicine
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Amputees
medicine
Range (statistics)
Humans
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Gait
Transfemoral amputation
Rehabilitation
business.industry
Vertical ground reaction force
030229 sport sciences
Biomechanical Phenomena
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Details
- ISSN :
- 02680033
- Volume :
- 75
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Biomechanics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5c28a1d8fd3c9e96f07e7e8e7161cc23