Performance Evaluation of Jaipur Knee Joint through Kinematics and Kinetics Gait Symmetry with Unilateral Transfemoral Indian Amputees

Abstract

Gait analysis is considered as the most systematic study of human motion. The analysis of gait includes visual and analytical perception of the individual, augmentation of various mechanical instrumentations for measuring movement of body, muscles activity and body mechanics. Past study focused on gait analysis of various animal locomotion and humans mainly on sports biomechanics. This paper aims to quantify the gait performance with Jaipur Knee, which is one of the most widely used prosthesis in Indian population. Gait data with Jaipur knee joint is not available till date. The proposed study targets to predict the performance of Jaipur knee joint in terms of gait symmetry with transfemoral Indian amputees. Gait symmetry may be the basis of recommendation of knee joint to prosthetic patients. This study used kinematics and kinetics parameters together to quantify the performance of Jaipur knee joint to evaluate gait symmetry. This research will be helpful for clinician to predict and further to prevent the degenerated musculoskeletal effects generally seen in unilateral transfemoral amputees. © 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.