Journal article
Sound limb loading in individuals with unilateral transfemoral amputation across a range of walking velocities
Clinical biomechanics (Bristol), Vol.30(10), pp.1049-1055
12/2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2015.09.008
PMID: 26412015
Abstract
Individuals with unilateral transfemoral amputation demonstrate significantly increased rates of osteoarthritis in their sound knee. This increased risk is likely the result of altered knee mechanical loading and gait compensations resulting from limited function in the prosthetic limb. Altered knee loading as calculated using loading rates and peak external knee adduction moments and impulses have been associated with both the development and progression of knee osteoarthritis in other populations. The purpose of this study was to determine if young individuals with transfemoral amputation demonstrate biomechanical indicators of increased knee osteoarthritis risk.
Fourteen young male Service Members with unilateral transfemoral amputation and 14 able-bodied service members underwent biomechanical gait analysis at three standardized walking velocities. A two-way ANOVA (group × speed) with unpaired comparisons with Bonferroni-Holm post-hoc corrections assessed statistical significance and effect sizes (d) were calculated.
Normalized peak external knee adduction moments and impulses were 25.7% (P < 0.014, d > 0.994) and 27.1% (P < 0.012, d > 1.019) lower, respectively, in individuals with trans-femoral amputation than controls when averaged across speeds, and effect sizes were large. External knee flexor moments were not, however, different between groups and effect sizes were generally small (P > 0.380, d < 0.338). Maximal loading rates were significantly greater in individuals with amputation and effect sizes were large (P < 0.001, d > 1.644).
Individuals with transfemoral amputation did not demonstrate biomechanical risk factors for high medial compartment knee joint loads, but the increased loading rates could place the sound knee at greater risk for cartilage or other tissue damage, even if not localized to the medial compartment.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Sound limb loading in individuals with unilateral transfemoral amputation across a range of walking velocities
- Creators
- Elizabeth Russell Esposito - Center for the Intrepid, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Brooke Army Medical Center, JBSA, Ft. Sam Houston, TX, USA 78234; DoD-VA Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence (EACE), USA. Electronic address: Erussell.kin@gmail.comJennifer M Aldridge Whitehead - Center for the Intrepid, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Brooke Army Medical Center, JBSA, Ft. Sam Houston, TX, USA 78234; DoD-VA Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence (EACE), USAJason M Wilken - Center for the Intrepid, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Brooke Army Medical Center, JBSA, Ft. Sam Houston, TX, USA 78234; DoD-VA Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence (EACE), USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Clinical biomechanics (Bristol), Vol.30(10), pp.1049-1055
- Publisher
- England
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2015.09.008
- PMID
- 26412015
- ISSN
- 0268-0033
- eISSN
- 1879-1271
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2015
- Academic Unit
- Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984046812902771
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