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Effects of a powered ankle-foot prosthesis on kinetic loading of the unaffected leg during level-ground walking
BACKGROUND: People with a lower-extremity amputation that use conventional passive-elastic ankle-foot prostheses encounter a series of stress-related challenges during walking such as greater forces on their unaffected leg, and may thus be predisposed to secondary musculoskeletal injuries such as ch...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3685554/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23758860 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-0003-10-49 |