Joint Loads and Cartilage Stress in Intact Joints of Military Transtibial Amputees: Enhancing Quality of Life

Abstract

The goals of this project are to identify exercises that maintain intact limb knee and hip joint and cartilage tissue loads at safe levels and, consequently, enhance the quality of life (QoL) via prevention of intact limb joint arthritis for military transtibial amputees. Progress during year 1 includes the following. 1) Purchased, installed, and developed protocols for instrumentation needed for motion analysis studies. 2) Tested eight out of 20 subjects in gait, cycling, and elliptical training experiments. 3) Developed analytical methods to obtain accurate knee joint kinematics (while minimizing errors due to soft tissue artifact and crosstalk); analysis of tested subjects underway. 4) Developed analytical methods to obtain knee joint loads using EMG-driven inverse dynamics; analysis of tested subjects underway. 5) Conducted five knee MRI scans and commenced finite element model development. At the end of year 1, results and findings are preliminary and not available; however, several conference papers are being prepared for submission in the next quarter.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1050109

Entities

People

  • Stephen M. Klisch

Organizations

  • California Polytechnic State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amputees
  • Arthritis
  • Cartilage
  • Co-Channel Interference
  • Data Analysis
  • Joints (Anatomy)
  • Kinematics
  • Lower Limb Amputees
  • Medical Personnel
  • Motion Capture
  • Quality Of Life
  • Soft Tissues
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Students
  • Three Dimensional
  • Tissues
  • Training

Readers

  • Exercise and Sports Science.
  • Immunology and Pathology
  • Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Care for Military Service Members and Veterans with Limb Loss or Disability.