Optimising Prosthetic Care with Real-World Insights
Currently, clinicians involved in prosthetic provision and care lack an objective method to measure patients’ real-world prosthetic usage. This limitation hinders their understanding of patients’ daily lives and affects the reporting of outcomes following prosthetic prescriptions. Harnessing this information could greatly benefit clinical decision-making, user feedback, research, and manufacturers’ understanding of device usage in real-world settings.
We have three interrelated projects designed to address these needs. The first focuses on determining the information most useful to clinicians, the second on detecting real-world walking on uneven terrain, and the third on evaluating a measure of participation. These projects will be integrated and contribute to predicting and monitoring health changes.
Team
Dr Alix Chadwell
Victoria Patricks
Matt Wassall
Dr Peter Worsley (University of Southampton)
Dr Chantel Ostler (University of Southampton)