ArticleEuropean journal of applied physiology2008
Effect of speed on the energy cost of walking in unilateral traumatic lower limb amputees.
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- A review of user needs to drive the development of lower limb prostheses.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2022Pooled it
- Metabolic costs of activities of daily living in persons with a lower limb amputation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2019Pooled it
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- Effects of single- and dual-task training on dual-task walking performance, prosthetic-limb dynamics and quality of life in unilateral transtibial amputees.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Quantification of the Survival Disadvantage Associated with Major Amputation in Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Continuous neural control of a bionic limb restores biomimetic gait after amputation.Nature medicine · 2024Article
- Transfemoral limb loss modestly increases the metabolic cost of optimal control simulations of walking.PeerJ · 2024Article
- Walking speeds are lower for short distance and turning locomotion: Experiments and modeling in low-cost prosthesis users.PloS one · 2024Article
- Improving Amputee Endurance over Activities of Daily Living with a Robotic Knee-Ankle Prosthesis: A Case Study.Proceedings of the ... IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems · 2023Article
- Data-Driven Variable Impedance Control of a Powered Knee-Ankle Prosthesis for Adaptive Speed and Incline Walking.IEEE transactions on robotics : a publication of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society · 2023Article
- Correlation of Femoral Muscle Volume Using Three-Dimensional Modeling and Locomotor Function After Unilateral Trans-femoral Amputation.Annals of rehabilitation medicine · 2022Article
- The Effect of Prosthetic Ankle Dorsiflexion Stiffness on Standing Balance and Gait Biomechanics in Individuals with Unilateral Transtibial Amputation.Journal of prosthetics and orthotics : JPO · 2022Article
- Knee extensor power predicts six-minute walk test performance in people with transfemoral amputations.PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Is there a trade-off between economy and task goal variability in transfemoral amputee gait?Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Evaluation of a quasi-passive biarticular prosthesis to replicate gastrocnemius function in transtibial amputee gait.Journal of biomechanics · 2021Article
- Correlates of Balance and Aerobic Indices in Lower-Limb Prostheses Users on Arm Crank Exercise.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Effects of microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knees on self-reported mobility, quality of life, and psychological states in patients with transfemoral amputations.Acta orthopaedica et traumatologica turcica · 2020Article
- Sensory feedback restoration in leg amputees improves walking speed, metabolic cost and phantom pain.Nature medicine · 2019Article
- Energy cost of ambulation in trans-tibial amputees using a dynamic-response foot with hydraulic versus rigid 'ankle': insights from body centre of mass dynamics.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2019Article
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Abstract
In this work, the effect of walking speed on the energy expenditure in traumatic lower-limb amputees was studied. The oxygen consumption was measured in 10 transfemoral amputees, 9 transtibial amputees and 13 control subjects, while they stood and walked at different speeds from 0.3 m s(-1) to near their maximum sustainable speed. Standing energy expenditure rate was the same in lower-limb amputees and in control subjects (approximately 1.85 W kg(-1)). On the contrary, during walking, the net energy expenditure rate was 30-60% greater in transfemoral amputees and 0-15% greater in transtibial amputees than in control subjects. The maximal sustainable speed was about 1.2 m s(-1) in transfemoral amputees and 1.6 m s(-1) in transtibial amputees, whereas it was above 2 m s(-1) in control subjects. Among these three groups, the cost of transport versus speed presented a U-shaped curve; the minimum cost increased with the level of amputation, and the speed at which this minimum occurred decreased.
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