The knee joint, as the main lower limb motor joint, is the most vulnerable and susceptible
joint. The knee injuries considerably impact the normal living ability and mental health of …

Abstract Background: Sit-to-stand (STS) is a crucial transfer influencing a person's
independence in daily activities, as well as safety and quality of life, and is thus vital to …

After above-knee amputation, the missing biological knee and ankle are commonly replaced
with a passive prosthesis, which cannot provide net-positive energy to assist the user …

A normative description of a motion details the necessary and sufficient criteria to identify
that motion. It equips researchers with a shared lexicon for describing their research and, in …

Background Lower limb prosthesis users exhibit high rates of joint pain and disease, such
as osteoarthritis, in their intact limb. Overloading of their intact limb during daily activities …

Variation in the timing indicators separating sit-to-stand (STS) into movement phases
complicates both research comparisons and clinical applications. The purpose of this study …

Obesity is associated with increased risk of total hip arthroplasty (THA) dislocation.
Differences in kinematics and kinetics at the hip during activities of daily living such as sit-to …

Background: Slow walking speed, time to perform the five-times-sit-to-stand (FTSS) test and
motoric cognitive risk syndrome (MCR; defined as slow gait speed combined with subjective …

Upper limb prosthetic components are often characterized by the degrees of freedom
(DOFs), or different planes of movement, that they allow. 1 For example, the elbow has 1 key …

Background Sit-to-stand (STS) movement is useful for evaluating lower limb muscle function,
especially from force platforms. Nevertheless, due to a lack of standardization of the STS …