Sentence examples for prosthetic ankle from inspiring English sources

Meyer then visited Hugh Herr, an expert from MIT, who was demonstrating the latest prosthetic ankle with the help of an amputee.

But just as a runner with fully functioning legs can tear a muscle or sprain a ligament, custom rugby wheelchairs can be totaled in a nasty scrum, and a prosthetic ankle can be twisted.

This new prosthetic ankle is a little closer than others, though: it moves on its own, adapting to its user's gait and the surface on which it lands.

An assembly was then designed in Solidworks to hold the prosthetic ankle joint and allow for adjustability of the device (Fig. 3b).

This paper presents the characterisation of electromyography signals for the purpose of controlling a powered prosthetic ankle using pattern recognition algorithms.

This study presents a particular mechanical device for lower limb amputees, a prosthetic ankle, designed for swimming and partially for walking in two possible configurations.

Several works have shown that series and parallel elasticity can reduce peak power and energy consumption in prosthetic ankles.

Pistorius appears to use about one-fourth less lower leg energy when matched with runners with fleshly feet because his prosthetic ankles are more efficient than fleshly ankles, and initially he was banned from the Olympics due to the claim (subsequently overturned by the International Court of Arbitration for Sport) that his artificial feet gave him an unfair advantage.

The "dead spot" phenomenon in prosthetics is a disruption in forward progression observed in the rearfoot of passive prosthetic foot-ankle systems which results in a compensatory and inefficient gait pattern by amputees.

Unlike other false feet, the Echelon prosthetic foot and ankle uses hydraulics to help it align itself.

The effect of foot and ankle prosthetic components on braking and propulsive impulses during transtibial amputee gait.