Publications by authors named "Barry Leech"
Article Synopsis
- * It analyzes inter-participant variability in spatio-temporal characteristics, loading boundaries, and local extremum during activities like walking, ascending, and descending ramps and stairs.
- * The findings aim to enhance prosthetic efficacy and safety, informing future prosthetic designs, automated algorithms, and clinical trials, with data available in an online repository.
Article Synopsis
- This paper discusses findings from the research article on automated characterization of prosthetic feet for transtibial prostheses, focusing on angles of dorsiflexion and bending moments during walking.
- It highlights significant inter-participant variability in key areas such as load cell positioning, dorsiflexion patterns, and moment-angle curves, which are crucial for understanding prosthetic performance.
- The benchmark datasets provided are essential for developing automated algorithms and conducting future clinical trials, with additional resources available in an online repository.
Objective: This study describes differentiating prosthetic feet designs fitted to bone-anchored transtibial prostheses based on an automated characterization of ankle stiffness profile relying on direct loading measurements. The objectives were (A) to present a process characterizing stiffness using innovative macro, meso and micro analyses, (B) to present stiffness profiles for feet with and without anthropomorphic designs, where anthropomorphicity is defined as a similarity of the moment-angle dependency in prosthetic and in the anatomical ankle, (C) to determine sensitivity of characterization.
Methods: Three participants walked consecutively with two instrumented bone-anchored prostheses including their own prosthetic feet and Free-Flow foot meeting the anthropomorphicity criterion by design.