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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00417352
Date of registration: 28/12/2006
Primary sponsor: University of South Florida
Public title: Study of Compensatory Motion While Using an Upper Limb Prosthesis
Scientific title: Kinematic and Kinetic Profile of Common Tasks for the Development of Design Parameters of an Upper Limb Prosthesis
Date of first enrolment: December 2006
Target sample size: 17
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00417352
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   Stephanie L Carey, PhD
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Affiliation:  University of South Florida
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- ages 18-60 years old

- Control group: normal, healthy volunteers

- Amputee group: unilateral, transradial myoelectric prosthesis users

Exclusion Criteria:

- elderly > 60

- children < 18

- pregnant women

- persons with shoulder impairments, injuries, or problems

- bilateral upper limb amputees



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 60 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Prosthesis
Intervention(s)
Device: Added mass
Device: Brace
Primary Outcome(s)
elbow flexion
elbow joint force
elbow joint torque
should joint torque
shoulder abduction
shoulder flexion
shoulder joint force
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
Compensatory motion
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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