Trip-Related Falls by Amputees
In a collaboration with Kenton Kaufmann, PhD, in the Department of Orthopaedics at the Mayo Clinic, and funcded by Otto Bock, we are presently investigating how to reduce the very high incidence of trip-related falls by above-knee amputees.
AKA_Trip1: The non-prosthetic limb (red) is tripped by an obstacle (non pictured) located between the two force plates.
AKA_Trip2: The prosthetic limb (green) is tripped.