Effects of Wearing a Powered Ankle-Foot Prosthesis on Amputee Walking

Inclusion Criteria

• •20 healthy adult volunteers, 10 unilateral trans-tibial amputees and 10 matched non-amputees, will be recruited and screened
• •Amputees must be at least 1 year post-amputation, high-functioning (at least a K3 level of ambulation), and whose cause of amputation is either traumatic or vascular. Medicare defines a K3 level amputee as an ambulator who has the ability or potential for prosthetic ambulation with variable cadence, who has the ability to traverse most environmental barriers and who may have vocational, therapeutic, or exercise activity that demands prosthetic utilization beyond simple locomotion