Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 88, Issue 4 , Pages 464-470 , April 2007

Preliminary Evaluation of an Automatically Stance-Phase Controlled Pediatric Prosthetic Knee Joint Using Quantitative Gait Analysis

Presented in part to the Association of Children’s Prosthetic-Orthotic Clinics, March 16–19, 2005, Orlando, FL.

  • Jan Andrysek, MASc

      Affiliations

    • Bloorview Research Institute, Bloorview Kids Rehab, Toronto, ON, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Jan Andrysek, MASc, Bloorview Kids Rehab, 150 Kilgour Rd, Toronto, ON M4G 1R8, Canada
    • ,
  • Susan Redekop, BASc

      Affiliations

    • Bloorview Research Institute, Bloorview Kids Rehab, Toronto, ON, Canada
    • ,
  • Stephen Naumann, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Bloorview Research Institute, Bloorview Kids Rehab, Toronto, ON, Canada
    • Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

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 Supported by the Canadian Institutes of Heath Research (grant no. PPP-63077), Heffernan Co-Steel Innovation Scholarship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and the Bloorview Children’s Hospital Foundation.

 No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the authors or upon any organization with which the authors are associated.

PII: S0003-9993(07)00012-3

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.01.009

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 88, Issue 4 , Pages 464-470 , April 2007

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