Alineación de prótesis y parámetros biomecánicos de pacientes amputados transtibiales

Abstract

Anti-personnel mines have been responsible for altering the lives of thousands of people around the world, Colombia is no exception. The armed conflict experienced for decades in Colombia has led to the use of this unconventional war strategy that is destructive to the entire population, causing death and injuries to body segments. A consequence of the impact of anti-personnel mines is transtibial amputation, where the body segment is removed. below the knee, this affects the physical, biological and psychological part of the amputee individual, it has emotional, family and social repercussions, since the subject must depend on the people in his environment to function and loses autonomy. One form of help for the amputee is physical rehabilitation, where a prosthesis is adapted so that it is capable of morphologically and functionally replacing the lost segment. This book presents the results of a cross-sectional descriptive study with an observational component for the measurement of anatomical variables in subjects with transtibial amputees due to landmine trauma and prosthesis users. Through this research, kinetic and kinematic parameters were identified, both in static and dynamic positions, and the effect on standing and walking produced by variations in static alignment was evident, reflecting aspects that are not considered in the adaptation of the prosthesis. given the few technologies for this type of procedures and that seem negligible in the technique of alignment, but that are relevant in the medium and long term.