作者: Diana Hunter , Elizabeth Smith Cole , Julie M. Murray , Tinker D. Murray
DOI: 10.2519/JOSPT.1995.21.5.268
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摘要: Traditional rehabilitation of amputees is primarily aimed at strengthening remaining musculature necessary for prosthetic use and gait training. Available training time, however, often limited by pain, residual limb skin tolerance, the patient's cardiovascular endurance. Harness-supported treadmill ambulation a technique being used physical therapists to decrease an individual's body weight given percentage during exercise. This, theoretically, allows amputee ambulate on prosthesis lower energy cost. The purpose this study was compare expenditure healthy below-knee volunteers with able-bodied harness-supported in order determine if conservation achieved. Subjects were tested treadmill, walking .67 m/sec (1.5 mph) 1.34 (3.0 each following randomized situations: full weight, 20% ...