Title :
Motor patterns in amputee gait: motor adaptions and implications for redesign
Author :
Winter, David A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Kinesiology, Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada
Abstract :
The author presents case studies illustrating the adaptations of the amputee, expected or unexpected. Both below-the-knee and above-the-knee amputees are considered. Detailed biomechanical analyses of different level prostheses demonstrate not only how the mechanisms within the prostheses are working but also the motor adaptions of the residual muscles
Keywords :
biomechanics; above-the-knee amputee; amputee gait; below-the-knee amputee; biomechanical analysis; motor adaptions; motor patterns; prostheses; Absorption; Delay; Foot; Hip; Kinematics; Kinetic theory; Knee; Muscles; Power generation; Prosthetics;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Engineering., Proceedings of a Special Symposium on Maturing Technologies and Emerging Horizons in
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
DOI :
10.1109/MTEHBE.1988.26383
