[AMP-L] Can Microprocessor Knees Reduce Amputee Falls?

[Wayne Renardson]

via Orthopedics This Week:

Can a "Microprocessor" knee implant reduce the rate of falling for 
active amputee patients?  

A research team from the Hanger Clinic in Texas along with researchers 
from the University of Nebraska, University of Utah, and University of 
North Carolina tackled that question and designed a study to collect data 
from patients who´d been implanted with a "microprocessor knee" after 
undergoing lower limb amputations. 

As a patient population, this group tends to have a high incidence of 
falls. Further, above-the-knee amputations and diabetes/vascular disease 
are also risk factors for falls   
in amputees.

The rest of the story, with photo & chart, here:

https://tinyurl.com/yddfqh8z

Wayne R.