Transfemoral Delicious Knowledge® Flashcards
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PROSTHETIC GAIT CONSIDERATIONS: HIP
Stability of the femur against the socket wall (socket design)
PROSTHETIC GAIT CONSIDERATIONS: HIP
Stability of the residual limb within the socket
Stability of the femur
- Single bone surrounded by soft tissue
- More variability in contours of the socket design
than TT sockets - Hip muscle balance is impacted by the amputation (loss of adductors)
Quadrilateral socket
- Rectangular (top view)
- Relief for adductor tendon
- Pressure on Scarpa’s triangle lateral
- Posterior brim has a shelf for the ischium/gluteals to bear
- Anterior/Lateral brims are higher than medial/posterior brims
ISCHIAL CONTAINMENT SOCKET
- More oval in shape (top view)
- M/L dimension is narrower than A/P dimension
- Medial/posterior walls are higher than quad socket in order to contain the ischium
- High posterior and lateral walls hold the pelvis
- Design keeps the femur more adducted
Types of positioning that determine the STABILITY OF THE RESIDUAL LIMB WITHIN THE SOCKET
- Active positioning
- Passive positioning
ACTIVE SOCKET POSITION
Active co-contraction of quadriceps and hip extensors creates optimal pressure within the socket.
This provides support for postural alignment and stability.
PASSIVE SOCKET POSITION
User is passively in the socket (little volitional muscle activity) causing abnormal pressure and poor containment.
Lack of postural support results in weight placed on the posterior brim of the socket.
(The user is “sitting” on the socket.)
ACTIVE USER/SOCKET INTERFACE:
• Co-contraction of hip extensors and quadriceps within the prosthetic socket is important:
• Provides stability
• Additionally limits abnormal force between the
residual limb and the socket
FRONT WALL ACTIVATION:
- Active pressure of the residual limb in a forward motion against the anterior wall of the socket
- Occurs when the user is activating HIP FLEXION
BACK WALL ACTIVATION:
- Active pressure of the residual limb in a backward motion against the posterior wall of the socket
- Occurs when the user is activating
HIP EXTENSION
HIP ISSUES WITH GAIT: SWING PHASE
- Often hip flexion motion is excessive (too much “Front Wall” effort by the User)
- Excessive hip flexion moves the prosthetic knee quickly into knee extension and allows the user’s limb to descend passively to heel strike
- This can also lead to vaulting on the sound side by creating excessive forward momentum.
HIP ISSUES WITH GAIT: SWING PHASE
- Hip flexion is like a kick
- Pelvis retracts with a kick
- Gailey: work with pelvis to retrain anterior pelvic motion in the transverse plane with swing phase
HIP ISSUES WITH GAIT: STABILITY
- Lack of active socket position causes lack of stability at the hip in Stance phase
- User gets distal femur pain as bone rests on posterior socket wall and pushes distal end into the front wall of the socket (just “sits” in the “bucket”)
- Need to cue “BACK WALL” firing of hip extensors as User comes to Heel Strike and all the way to Toe Off
PROSTHETIC GAIT CONSIDERATIONS: KNEE
- Alignment (Involuntary Control)
- User effort (Voluntary Control)
Characteristics of the Knee Mechanism
- Stance Control
* Swing Control
• Voluntary prosthetic knee control
• Determined completely by muscular efforts of the prosthetic user
• Involuntary prosthetic knee control
- Created by alignment of the prosthetic components
* Created by knee component features (locking knees, weight-activated stance control knees, some hydraulic knees)
KNEE ALIGNMENT
- Knee usually aligned relative to hip axis and ankle axis
- Active Users (K4) usually set with LESS knee stability
- Low Activity Users (K1) usually set with MORE knee stability
Ankle axis directly below or behind knee axis for
LESS STABILITY (active users)
Knee will flex easily unless
muscular effort exerted to control it.
Ankle axis ahead of knee axis for
STABILITY
User exerts little effort to keep knee
straight
MECHANICAL KNEE: STANCE VOLUNTARY CONTROL
- Need to have stability in WB
- Safely transition weight from heel to toe of the prosthetic foot without knee buckling
- Active hip extension maintains foot on the ground and gets weight over the prosthetic foot
PROSTHETIC KNEE COMPONENTS
- Outside Hinges
- Single Axis
- Single Axis Weight Activated Stance Control
- Polycentric
- Manual Locking
List prosthetic knee components from least to most inherent stability
- Outside Hinges
- Single Axis
- Single Axis Weight Activated Stance Control
- Polycentric
- Manual Locking
List prosthetic knee components from most to least voluntary control
- Outside Hinges
- Single Axis
- Single Axis Weight Activated Stance Control
- Polycentric
- Manual Locking
MECHANICAL KNEE: STANCE
Remember: If there is not active effort by the user, the prosthetic knee mechanism can BUCKLE in standing/Stance phase
• Knee component choice can help control this by providing stability if certain conditions are met
STABILIZERS
Resist knee flexion during early Stance and Midstance
• Manual Lock: User walks with a stiff knee
• Brake: Wedge that lodges in a groove and holds when User initiates Stance phase with the prosthetic knee fully extended or flexed no greater than 25 degrees. Does not work beyond Midstance.
STABILIZERS: HYDRAULIC KNEE
• Brake mechanism for Stance control
• Usually also has a manual lock mode or
deactivation mode
• Mauch SNS (Swing N Stance) is an example of this
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WEIGHT-ACTIVATED STANCE CONTROL (SAFETY KNEE)
• Provides resistance to the prosthetic knee flexing (buckling)
• Acts like a brake
• User must unweight the prosthesis to release the
knee for sitting or stepping
• Not a smooth movement
POLYCENTRIC KNEES
- 2 or more pairs of bars that pivot proximally and distally
- Changing axis of knee rotation
- Stable at Midstance
- Releases with Toe-off to initiate flexion for Swing
MECHANICAL KNEE: STANCE
- Most knee mechanisms release when the prosthetic knee is in full extension and the weight has transitioned onto the toe of the prosthetic foot. (Terminal Stance to Toe-Off)
- This initiates Swing Phase
SWING CONTROL: FRICTION MECHANISMS
- Constant Friction (resists motion of shank through swing phase)
- Variable Friction (imitates action of sound knee, works in early and late swing phase)
- Heel Rise
- Terminal Impact
CONSTANT FRICTION MECHANISMS
- Clamps on the knee bolt (hinge)
- Tighten the clamps to increase the resistance
- Used with users who do not change walking velocity
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HOW DO VARIABLE FRICTION MECHANISMS WORK?
- Fluid, Hydraulic (oil) or pneumatic (air) unit has a piston moving up and down in a cylinder
- Amount of resistance is determined by walking speed
- Mimics the dampening effects of quadriceps and hamstrings in the normal limb
- For users with variable cadence/high activity levels
EXTENSION AIDS
• Provide a little extra help with Terminal Swing
• Assists to get the knee to extension for
Stance phase
• K1, K2 users need this because gait speed is so slow that knee may not fully extend at the end of Swing phase