Biomechanics in prosthetic rehabilitation

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Tips for writing this page:

Aim:

1. To provide the reader with an introduction to the principles of biomechanics.
2. To enable those principles to be applied to prosthetic rehabilitation in the lower limb amputee.

To include the following plus anything else you feel is relevant:

• Cycle of physiological walking using recognised terminology
• Principles of forces, centre of mass, moments, levers, equilibrium and work/energy as applied to the normal musculoskeletal system
• How these may differ for the lower limb amputee and broadly how prosthetic provision seeks to minimise gait deviations and optimise mobility

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