Prosthetic foot rollover shapes with implications for alignment of transtibial prostheses
Open Access
- 1 December 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Prosthetics and Orthotics International
- Vol. 24 (3) , 205-215
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03093640008726549
Abstract
Rollover shape is introduced as a significant characteristic of prosthetic feet. The rollover shapes of the Flexwalk, Quantum, SACH, and SAFE prosthetic feet were determined using three methods; two involving quasistatic loading and one dynamic loading. The results show that foot rollover shape properties obtained by quasistatic and by dynamic methods are similar. Relationships between foot rollover shape and the alignment of transtibial prostheses are introduced that suggest ways to align transtibial prostheses without walking trials and iterations. The relationships may explain what prosthetists attempt to accomplish when they dynamically align a transtibial limb. They also explain why prosthetic feet with different mechanical properties usually necessitate different alignments, and may explain why a number of gait studies of transtibial amputees do not show major gait differences when walking is executed on various kinds of prosthetic feet.Keywords
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