Assessing Ambulatory and Non-ambulatory Community Mobility in People With Lower Limb Amputation

Age: 18 years to 85 years old

Healthy Volunteers:

This study is NOT accepting healthy volunteers

Inclusion Criteria:

* Unilateral or bilateral major lower limb amputation (e.g., proximal to or through the ankle joint) * \>6 months since LLA Fitted with a prosthetic limb * Fitted with a prosthetic limb * Use a wheelchair or scooter for mobility for part of a day at least once per week

Exclusion Criteria:

* Unstable heart condition (including unstable angina, uncontrolled cardiac dysrhythmia, acute myocarditis, hypertension, and acute pericarditis) * Acute systemic infection Prisoner or institutionalized such that self-determined mobility is restricted * Prisoner or institutionalized such that self-determined mobility is restricted * Decisionally challenged individuals (Modified Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status score ≤24) * Undergoing active cancer treatment * Participating in prosthetic rehabilitation * Clinical discretion of the principal investigator to exclude patients who are determined to be unsafe and/or inappropriate to participate in the protocol * Inability to communicate verbally in English

Interventions:

OTHER: Clinical Descriptive Measures related to amputation collected, OTHER: GPS device education/distributed, OTHER: activPAL device education/distributed, OTHER: Questionnaire Assessments completed

Conditions:

Amputation

Keywords:

Lower Limb Amputation (LLA), Global Positioning System (GPS)

Contact(s): Paul Kline - klinep@vcu.edu

Principal Investigator:

IRB Number:

System ID: NCT07387744

Assessing Ambulatory and Non-ambulatory Community Mobility in People With Lower Limb Amputation

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