Assessment of static balance in lower limb amputees

• Register: REBEC
• Last refreshed on: 29 April 2013
• Main ID: RBR-6j2vvr
• Date of registration: 15/06/2012
• Primary sponsor: Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora - Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil
• Public title: Assessment of static balance in lower limb amputees
• Scientific title: Static stability evaluation in subjects with unilateral transtibial amputation traumatic.
• Date of first enrolment: 10/01/2011
• Target sample size: 20
• Recruitment status: data analysis completed
• URL: http://www.ensaiosclinicos.gov.br/rg/RBR-6j2vvr/
• Study design: Observational and transversal study

Countries of recruitment

Brazil

Contacts

• Name: Marcelle Ribeiro
• Affiliation: Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

• Name: Marcelle Ribeiro
• Affiliation: Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Amputees prostheses for more than one year and not amputated;
Ability to walk without assistive devices for walking;
Use prosthesis aligned with dynamic Sach ® foot.
Exclusion criteria: Hypertension, cardiovascular disease, or any condition that alters the quality of gait.

Age minimum: 18Y
Age maximum: 60Y
Gender: M

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Individuals with traumatic amputation, changes in static stability.
M01.150.100
G11.427.690

Intervention(s)

The study included 10 patients with transtibial amputation and 10 without amputação.All volunteers, both of the amputee as the group of non amputee were evaluated similarly. The volunteers were submitted to measurement of static stability through baropodometry, noninvasive method for maintaining the standing position for 30 seconds, which analyzed the oscillations of the body center of pressure.

Primary Outcome(s)

Decreased static stability in individuals with amputation and correlation with increasing age and shorter fitting, evaluated through analysis of the oscillation center of pressure by keeping the body upright posture for 30 seconds.

Secondary Outcome(s)

Increased sway area of the body center of pressure in individuals with transtibial amputation with advancing age and shorter fitting compared to the fitting area oscillation of body center of pressure of individuals without amputation.

Secondary ID(s)

0109.0.420.000-11

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa de Minas Gerais - Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Secondary Sponsor(s)

Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora - Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil