An alternative bent-knee prosthesis.

Abstract

Prosthetic fitting in patients with below-knee amputations and concurrent knee flexion contractures poses inherent difficulties to the prosthetic rehabilitation team. The standard bent-knee prosthesis is bulky and awkward. It treats the patient functionally as a knee disarticulation and yields no potential for improving the patient's degree of contracture. This paper describes a case report with an alternative to the bent-knee prosthesis that not only offered improved function relative to the standard bent-knee prosthesis, but also acted therapeutically by reducing the patient's knee-flexion contracture.

• Authors: R D Hays, J P Leimkuehler, M A Miknevich, D Troyer
• Journal: Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation (Arch Phys Med Rehabil) Vol. 73 Issue 11 Pg. 1118-21 (Nov 1992) ISSN: 0003-9993 [Print] United States
• PMID: 1444781 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Topics

• Amputation, Surgical (rehabilitation)
• Artificial Limbs
• Contracture (etiology, rehabilitation)
• Humans
• Knee Joint
• Leg (blood supply, surgery)
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Postoperative Complications (rehabilitation)
• Prosthesis Design
• Vascular Diseases (surgery)