Design of Mechanism and Preliminary Field Validation of Low-Cost, Passive Prosthetic Knee for Users With Transfemoral Amputation in India

An estimated 230,000 above-knee amputees in India are currently in need of prosthetic care, a majority of them facing severe socio-economic constraints. However, only few passive prosthetic knee devices in the market have been designed for facilitation of normative gait kinematics and for meeting th...

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Main Authors: Arelekatti, Venkata N M (Contributor), Winter, Amos G. (Contributor)
Other Authors: MIT-SUTD Collaboration Office (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017-05-22T17:15:16Z.
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