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Metabolic Cost Savings for Transtibial Amputees Wearing the Controlled Energy Storage and Return (CESR) Foot

NCT00494143 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 7

Last updated 2014-06-09

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Summary

To determine if below-knee amputees will walk with better efficiency wearing a CESR foot which stores energy at heel strike and releases energy releases energy during push-off.

Conditions

  • Transtibial Amputation

Interventions

DEVICE

CESR Prosthetic Foot

a novel prosthetic foot that is designed to store energy and release it at a predetermined time in the gait cycle

DEVICE

typical prosthetic foot

patients will wear the prosthetic foot that they were prescribed by the care providers in the clinical team

DEVICE

standardized prosthetic foot

a standard foot that has had weights applied to match the mass of the CESR foot

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Joseph M. Czernieki, MD MS · VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-07-31
Primary Completion
2009-05-31
Completion
2012-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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