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 includes the following. 1) Purchased, installed, and developed protocols for instrumentation needed for motion analysis studies. 2) Tested 16 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 ground reaction, pedal reaction, and knee joint loads; analysis of tested subjects underway. 5) Conducted eight knee MRI scans with finite element analyses underway. At the end of year 2, results and findings have been presented or submitted as nine conference papers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1055809

Entities

People

  • Stephen M. Klisch

Organizations

  • Cal Poly Corporation

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Amputees
  • Bioengineering
  • Biomechanical Phenomena
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Biomedical Research
  • Body Weight
  • California
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Factor Analysis
  • Finite Element Analysis
  • Information Science
  • Joints (Anatomy)
  • Leg Injuries
  • Load Cells
  • Lower Limb Amputees
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Medical Personnel
  • Prosthetics
  • Quality Of Life
  • Regression Analysis
  • Soft Tissues
  • Statistical Analysis

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