Frequency and Circumstances of Falls Reported by Ambulatory Unilateral Lower Limb Prosthesis Users: A Secondary Analysis

More than 50% of lower limb prosthesis (LLP) users report falling at least once a year, placing them at high risk for adverse health outcomes such as decreased mobility and diminished quality of life. Efforts to decrease falls in LLP users have traditionally focused on developing clinical tests to assess fall risk, designing prosthetic components to improve patient safety, and identifying risk factors to recognize potential fallers. Little attention has been directed toward recording, reporting, and characterizing the circumstances of falls in LLP users. Identifying the most common types of falls could help guide and prioritize clinical and research needs.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation

• Publication date

  2019-01-15

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.pmrj.2018.08.385PMID 30195705PMCID PMC6405319
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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