GAIT ANALYSIS IN PERIPHERAL VASCULAR INSUFFICIENCY THROUGH-KNEE AMPUTATION

Due to recent improvements in prosthetic limb componentry, through-the -knee (knee disarticulation) amputation has gained new interest for re habilitation-minded amputation surgeons. Recent objective scientific s tudies from our gait analysis laboratory have described the walking ch aracteristics of peripheral vascular insufficiency through-knee ampute es, and have compared their function with similar patients amputated a bove (transfemoral), or below (trans-tibial), the knee joint. This pap er provides a summary of that available information.