Error-Manipulation Gait Training for Veterans With Nontraumatic Lower Limb Amputation: A Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

he purpose of this study will be to determine the efficacy of error-manipulation gait training (error-augmentation or error-correction) to improve step length symmetry and secondary health outcomes in veterans with unilateral nontraumatic transtibial amputation (TTA).

Methods

This will be a 3-arm, parallel, assessor-blinded, randomized controlled trial, with baseline, postintervention, and 3-month follow-up assessments in a VA Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center. Participants are 54 US military veterans ranging in age from 50 to 85 years with a unilateral transtibial nontraumatic amputation. Participants will be randomized into 1 of 3 groups: error-augmentation training (EAT), error-correction training (ECT), or supervised walking (CTL). Each group wil

SUBMITTER: Kline PW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8639646 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature