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Comparison of walking energy cost between an anterior and a posterior ankle-foot orthosis in people with foot drop

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Menotti, F.
Laudani, Luca
Damiani, A.
Orlando, P.
Macaluso, A.
Date
2014-01
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Foundation for Rehabilitation Information
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1650-1977
1651-2081 (online)
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Objective: To compare walking energy cost between an anterior and a posterior ankle-foot orthosis in people with foot drop. Design: Within-group comparisons. Participants: Twenty-three adults (14 women, 9 men; mean age 56.8 years (standard deviation 15.4)) with foot drop. Methods: Participants were asked to walk for 5 min at their self-selected walking speed under 3 conditions: (i) with shoes only; (ii) with a posterior ankle-foot orthosis; (iii) with an anterior ankle-foot orthosis. Spatio-temporal gait para-meters (speed, step length and step frequency) and walking energy cost per unit of distance were assessed for each walking condition. A visual analogue scale was used to quantify participants’ level of perceived comfort for the 2 orthosis. Results: Gait spatio-temporal parameters were higher with anterior ankle-foot orthoses than with posterior ankle-foot orthoses or shoes only. Walking energy cost per unit of distance was lower with anterior than posterior ankle-foot orthosis or shoes only ((mean ± standard error) 3.53 ± 1.00 vs 3.94 ± 1.27 and 3.98 ± 1.53 J·kg–1·m–1 respectively; p < 0.05) and level of perceived comfort was higher with anterior ((mean ± standard error) 8.00 ± 1.32) than with posterior ankle-foot orthosis ((mean ± standard error) 4.52 ± 2.57; p < 0.05). Conclusion: In people with foot drop the use of anterior ankle-foot orthoses resulted in lower energy costs of walking and higher levels of perceived comfort compared with posterior ankle-foot orthoses. Anterior ankle-foot orthoses may enable people with foot drop to walk further with less physical effort than posterior ankle-foot orthoses.
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Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine;
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Menotti, F., Laudani, L., Damiani, A., Orlando, P. and Macaluso, A. (2014) 'Comparison of walking energy cost between an anterior and a posterior ankle-foot orthosis in people with foot drop', Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 46(8), pp.768-772.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10369/9471
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https://doi.org/10.2340/16501977-1837
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Article published in Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine available at https://doi.org/10.2340/16501977-1837
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