H. Abbas, S. Hamandi, Mohammed Abdulsattar, Yasser Sabeeh
{"title":"The Effect of Prosthetic Foot Type on Spatio- Temporal Parameters of Unilateral Below-Knee Amputees: A Case Study","authors":"H. Abbas, S. Hamandi, Mohammed Abdulsattar, Yasser Sabeeh","doi":"10.1109/iCareTech49914.2020.00017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iCareTech49914.2020.00017","url":null,"abstract":"The fit of the prosthetic limb of the amputee is a key factor for rehabilitation, as well as the type of prosthetic foot, which is one of the factors affecting the gait parameter. The study aims to measure the spatiotemporal parameters of below-knee amputation subjects and how it affected when the subjects fit to different prosthetic feet, also its effect on the rehabilitation process. Six male subjects with unilateral below-knee amputation were chosen to fit with four types of prosthetic feet (1S66 SACH foot Ottobock inc., 1C30 Trias carbon Ottobock inc., Dynastep Proteor group and Dynacity Proteor group), asked them to walk with their usual speed on the straight pathway perpendicularly with the camera, The Spatio-temporal parameters for both amputated leg and the sound leg measured manually by using the Kinovea software (Kinovea-0.8.15 software) from the videos recorded. The results show there are no significant differences in the spatiotemporal parameters for p=0.05 between the four types of prosthetic feet on the sound and amputee leg and the comparison between the amputee and sound leg show a significant difference for the single support time when the patients fit to Trias 1C30 and Dynastep p<0.05. This study concludes that there is a little effect of the prosthetics foot type on the spatiotemporal parameters for the objects activity level k1-k3, as well as well-trained objects had less affected.","PeriodicalId":164473,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Assistive and Rehabilitation Technologies (iCareTech)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126440147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"About i-CARE Project","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/icaretech49914.2020.00006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/icaretech49914.2020.00006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164473,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Assistive and Rehabilitation Technologies (iCareTech)","volume":"210 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121636433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assistive Technology Provision in Low Resource Settings: Challenges and Opportunities","authors":"L. D. de Witte","doi":"10.1109/iCareTech49914.2020.00038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/iCareTech49914.2020.00038","url":null,"abstract":"Assistive Technology (AT) is a very powerful tool to enable people to live healthy, productive, independent and dignified lives; to participate in education, the labour market and civic life. AT is essential for equal opportunities and the full use of human potential in society. In many countries, however, most people with disabilities do not have easy access to AT. This has to change, but changing this situation is not an easy task, especially not in settings without a clear infrastructure, legislation and without a history of AT provision. The central question to be discussed in this paper is; What requirements need to be met when improving AT provision? The focus will be on low resource settings. Not only challenges will be addressed, but also the opportunities specific to low resource settings. The aim of this paper is to stimulate relevant stakeholders to take the necessary steps to improve AT provision and to suggest some guidelines for these steps.","PeriodicalId":164473,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Assistive and Rehabilitation Technologies (iCareTech)","volume":"46 26","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113943621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}