An alternative bent-knee prosthesis.
Prosthetic fitting in patients with below-knee amputations and concurrent knee flexion contractures poses inherent difficulties to the prosthetic rehabilitation team. The standard bent-knee prosthesis is bulky and awkward. It treats the patient functionally as a knee disarticulation and yields no potential for improving the patient's degree of contracture. This paper describes a case report with an alternative to the bent-knee prosthesis that not only offered improved function relative to the standard bent-knee prosthesis, but also acted therapeutically by reducing the patient's knee-flexion contracture.
Hays
R D
RD
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, St. Francis Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA.
Leimkuehler
J P
JP
Miknevich
M A
MA
Troyer
D
D
D000671:Amputation, Surgical / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D001186:Artificial Limbs; D003286:Contracture / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000534:rehabilitation; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000601:surgery