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.
![diagram of optimising prosthetic care with real world insights](https://hub.salford.ac.uk/human-movement-and-rehabilitation/wp-content/uploads/sites/229/2023/04/optimising-prosthetic-care-e1680614495737.png)
![a student helping with prosthetics and orthotics](https://hub.salford.ac.uk/human-movement-and-rehabilitation/wp-content/uploads/sites/229/2024/07/optimising-prosthetic-care.jpg)
Team
Dr Alix Chadwell
Victoria Patricks
Matt Wassall
Dr Peter Worsley (University of Southampton)
Dr Chantel Ostler (University of Southampton)