The knee joint for a leg prosthesis consists of an upper part (9-12) and of a lower part (2-8) with an articulated connection thereto. The upper part is supported with runners (9) on sliding surfaces (6a) of the lower part, where the runners 5(9) are kept forced against the ...
The knee joint for a leg prosthesis consists of an upper part (9-12) and of a lower part (2-8) with an articulated connection thereto. The upper part is supported with runners (9) on sliding surfaces (6a) of the lower part, where the runners 5(9) are kept forced against the ...
For this reason, for intact and transtibial amputee runners, they can contact the ground with their leg with its knee flexed, but transfemoral prosthetic runners require full extension of the prosthetic knee to run safely during the prosthetic stance [1,3,4]. Several studies have shown that ...