Fig. 1
From: Prosthetic energy return during walking increases after 3 weeks of adaptation to a new device
Experimental Protocol. N = 22 subjects were prescribed a new prosthetic foot at their current functional level by a certified prosthetist. Fitting and alignment were performed on the subject’s first visit to the gait laboratory, after which the first data collection was performed (0 weeks). Subjects then wore the prosthesis at home and in the community, and came back for data collections after 1.5 weeks and 3 weeks. Each collection consisted of kinetic and kinematic data from overground walking trials at a self-selected speed. Subjects were retrospectively analyzed from a previous study conducted [21].