A review of user needs to drive the development of lower limb prostheses

S Manz, R Valette, F Damonte, L Avanci Gaudio… - … of neuroengineering and …, 2022 - Springer
Background The development of bionic legs has seen substantial improvements in the past
years but people with lower-limb amputation still suffer from impairments in mobility (eg …

Prosthetic embodiment: systematic review on definitions, measures, and experimental paradigms

J Zbinden, E Lendaro, M Ortiz-Catalan - Journal of NeuroEngineering and …, 2022 - Springer
The term embodiment has become omnipresent within prosthetics research and is often
used as a metric of the progress made in prosthetic technologies, as well as a hallmark for …

Cognitive benefits of using non-invasive compared to implantable neural feedback

L Chee, G Valle, G Preatoni, C Basla, M Marazzi… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
A non-optimal prosthesis integration into an amputee's body schema suggests some
important functional and health consequences after lower limb amputation. These include …

Factors associated with prosthesis embodiment and its importance for prosthetic satisfaction in lower limb amputees

R Bekrater-Bodmann - Frontiers in neurorobotics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Perceptual integration of a prosthesis into an amputee's body representation, that is,
prosthesis embodiment, has been proposed to be a major goal of prosthetic treatment …

Coordination between partial robotic exoskeletons and human gait: A comprehensive review on control strategies

JS Lora-Millan, JC Moreno, E Rocon - Frontiers in Bioengineering …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Lower-limb robotic exoskeletons have become powerful tools to assist or rehabilitate the gait
of subjects with impaired walking, even when they are designed to act only partially over the …

Measuring embodiment: A review of methods for prosthetic devices

JL Segil, LM Roldan, EL Graczyk - Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The development of neural interfaces to provide improved control and somatosensory
feedback from prosthetic limbs has initiated a new ability to probe the various dimensions of …

A multi-dimensional framework for prosthetic embodiment: a perspective for translational research

J Zbinden, E Lendaro, M Ortiz-Catalan - Journal of NeuroEngineering and …, 2022 - Springer
The concept of embodiment has gained widespread popularity within prosthetics research.
Embodiment has been claimed to be an indicator of the efficacy of sensory feedback and …

Lower-limb myoelectric calibration postures for transtibial prostheses

RR Posh, EC Barry, JP Schmiedeler… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of an agonist-antagonist muscle pair for myoelectric control of a transtibial
prosthesis requires normalizing the myoelectric signals and identifying their co-contraction …

Recommendations from the ISPO lower-limb COMPASS: Patient-reported and performance-based outcome measures

JM Tan, GRJ Halford, M Lukin… - Prosthetics and Orthotics …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Background: Outcome measures (patient-reported and performance-based) are used widely
but not uniformly within the clinical setting for individuals with lower-limb absence (LLA). The …

Human factors considerations of Interaction between wearers and intelligent lower-limb prostheses: a prospective discussion

X Bai, J Yuan, M Liu, H Huang, J Feng - Journal of NeuroEngineering and …, 2024 - Springer
Compared to traditional lower-limb prostheses (LLPs), intelligent LLPs are more versatile
devices with emerging technologies, such as microcontrollers and user-controlled interfaces …