ArticleJournal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation2018
Amputee perception of prosthetic ankle stiffness during locomotion.
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- User preference in the personalized control of an ankle prosthesis: a case study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026Article
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- Variable-stiffness prosthesis improves biomechanics of walking across speeds compared to a passive device.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Moment Criterion of Anthropomorphicity of Prosthetic Feet as a Potential Predictor of Their Functionality for Transtibial Amputees.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Validation of a modified visual analogue scale to measure user-perceived comfort of a lower-limb exoskeleton.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Investigating the Association of Quantitative Gait Stability Metrics With User Perception of Gait Interruption Due to Control Faults During Human-Prosthesis Interaction.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2023Article
- Robotic Emulation of Candidate Prosthetic Foot Designs May Enable Efficient, Evidence-Based, and Individualized Prescriptions.Journal of prosthetics and orthotics : JPO · 2022Article
- Foot contact forces can be used to personalize a wearable robot during human walking.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Can humans perceive the metabolic benefit provided by augmentative exoskeletons?Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Effects of women's footwear on the mechanical function of heel-height accommodating prosthetic feet.PloS one · 2022Article
- Reducing stiffness of shock-absorbing pylon amplifies prosthesis energy loss and redistributes joint mechanical work during walking.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Understanding patient preference in prosthetic ankle stiffness.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Shortcomings of human-in-the-loop optimization of an ankle-foot prosthesis emulator: a case series.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- A passive mechanism for decoupling energy storage and return in ankle-foot prostheses: A case study in recycling collision energy.Wearable technologies · 2021Article
- Patient-Preferred Prosthetic Ankle-Foot Alignment for Ramps and Level-Ground Walking.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2021Article
- Comparing preference of ankle-foot stiffness in below-knee amputees and prosthetists.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundProsthetic feet are spring-like, and their stiffness critically affects the wearer's stability, comfort, and energetic cost of walking. Despite the importance of stiffness in ambulation, the prescription process often entails testing a limited number of prostheses, which may result in patients receiving a foot with suboptimal mechanics. To understand the resolution with which prostheses should be individually optimized, we sought to characterize below-knee prosthesis users' psychophysical sensitivity to prosthesis stiffness.
methodsWe used a novel variable-stiffness ankle prosthesis to measure the repeatability of user-selected preferred stiffness, and implemented a psychophysical experiment to characterize the just noticeable difference of stiffness during locomotion.
resultsAll eight subjects with below-knee amputation exhibited high repeatability in selecting their Preferred Stiffness (mean coefficient of variation: 14.2 ± 1.7%) and were able to correctly identify a 7.7 ± 1.3% change in ankle stiffness (with 75% accuracy).
conclusionsThis high sensitivity suggests prosthetic foot stiffness should be tuned with a high degree of precision on an individual basis. These results also highlight the need for a pairing of new robotic prescription tools and mechanical characterizations of prosthetic feet.
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