Horizontal Ladder Task: Assessing the Effect of a Walking Intervention on Mobility in People with Lower Limb Amputation

Authors

Chelsea Domingo, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

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Description

Hundreds of thousands of people struggle with mobility due to lower limb amputation. Learning how to do something you have never done is a difficult task for anyone. Practice is important when person with amputation uses a prosthesis because each environment they encounter could vary. Across settings, different textures such as even and uneven terrain require different skills to maintain balance. The purpose of this research is to determine if practicing walking on uneven terrain will help people with amputation improve their ability to walk in different environments. We will use a horizontal ladder task (Christie et al., 2020) to test this ability.

Publisher Location

Las Vegas (Nev.)

Publication Date

12-9-2022

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Language

English

Controlled Subject

Amputees--Rehabilitation;Amputees--Care

Disciplines

Occupational Therapy | Physical Therapy | Rehabilitation and Therapy

File Format

pdf

File Size

4000 KB

Comments

Faculty Mentor: Jenny A. Kent

Recommended Citation

Domingo, Chelsea, "Horizontal Ladder Task: Assessing the Effect of a Walking Intervention on Mobility in People with Lower Limb Amputation" (2022). Undergraduate Research Symposium Posters. 121.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/durep_posters/121

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