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The purpose of this report is to provide novel findings from the kinematics of
five amputees following a laboratory-induced trip. Only amputees with a
unilateral, transfemoral or knee disarticulation amputation were included in this
study. When the prosthesis was obstructed, all subjects used a lowering strategy,
resulting in three harness-assisted recoveries and one fall. When the
non-prosthetic limb was obstructed, one subject fell using an elevating strategy,
one subject fell using a lowering strategy, and one subject, who was
harness-assisted, used a hopping strategy. These results can be used to guide
further studies of how to limit prosthetic knee flexion due to weight-bearing
during a lowering strategy, implement compensatory step training to reduce fall
risk, and identify appropriate, context-specific recovery strategies for people
with transfemoral or knee disarticulation amputations.
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