New Journal Club article is posted! Check it out!
Elisa de Jong
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New Journal Club article is posted! Check it out!
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Elisa de Jong
Date:
4/22/2012
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Hello List members!
Check out the Journal Club's discussion board on the Gait Society's
website. Shane Wurdeman, scientific liason, has posted a link to a new
article as well as a brief summary.
Hachisuka K, Makin K, Wada F, Saeki S, Yoshimoto N. (2007) Oxygen
consumption, oxygen cost and physiological cost index in polio survivors: A
comparison of walking with orthosis, with an ordinary or a carbon-fibre
reinforced plastic knee-ankle-foot orthosis. J Rehabil Med; 39:646-50.
Summary: posted by Shane Wurdeman
*This study examined the effects of utilizing a ordinary KAFO, a carbon
KAFO, and no orthosis on the gait of individuals suffering from post-polio
myelitis. This is interesting study, and hopefully many will reflect on the
post-polio patients they have worked with, especially those that feel so
strongly about their old, conventional KAFOs. All in all, the study was not
that surprising, and the results were somewhat expected. When individuals
walked with carbon KAFOs, they expended less energy and walked faster. The
carbon KAFOs were on average 29% lighter. The authors make excellent point
that the carbon KAFOs do, however, come at about %50 increased monetary
expense.
....
*To read Shane's full summary, click the link provided to log in and go
directly to the Journal Club Discussion Board.
<URL Redacted>.
Don't forget to take a moment and post a comment!
*What do members of Gait Society think? Are you more inclined to use a
carbon KAFO with your post-polio patients, even if this means needing to
do some more convincing of those that are skeptical of the lightweight
KAFO? What about other populations? What about the use of stance control,
these were locked knee joints, the use of stance control would seem to be a
strong benefit- would a conventional KAFO with stance control do better
than the carbon KAFO with locked knee joints?*
Registration is required to access the GS website. The Academy does allow
participation on the site for a limited time prior to requiring Academy
and/or Society membership. To visit the Gait Society's main page, go to
<URL Redacted>.
- *Elisa de Jong, CPO, LO
Journal Club Chair*
Check out the Journal Club's discussion board on the Gait Society's
website. Shane Wurdeman, scientific liason, has posted a link to a new
article as well as a brief summary.
Hachisuka K, Makin K, Wada F, Saeki S, Yoshimoto N. (2007) Oxygen
consumption, oxygen cost and physiological cost index in polio survivors: A
comparison of walking with orthosis, with an ordinary or a carbon-fibre
reinforced plastic knee-ankle-foot orthosis. J Rehabil Med; 39:646-50.
Summary: posted by Shane Wurdeman
*This study examined the effects of utilizing a ordinary KAFO, a carbon
KAFO, and no orthosis on the gait of individuals suffering from post-polio
myelitis. This is interesting study, and hopefully many will reflect on the
post-polio patients they have worked with, especially those that feel so
strongly about their old, conventional KAFOs. All in all, the study was not
that surprising, and the results were somewhat expected. When individuals
walked with carbon KAFOs, they expended less energy and walked faster. The
carbon KAFOs were on average 29% lighter. The authors make excellent point
that the carbon KAFOs do, however, come at about %50 increased monetary
expense.
....
*To read Shane's full summary, click the link provided to log in and go
directly to the Journal Club Discussion Board.
<URL Redacted>.
Don't forget to take a moment and post a comment!
*What do members of Gait Society think? Are you more inclined to use a
carbon KAFO with your post-polio patients, even if this means needing to
do some more convincing of those that are skeptical of the lightweight
KAFO? What about other populations? What about the use of stance control,
these were locked knee joints, the use of stance control would seem to be a
strong benefit- would a conventional KAFO with stance control do better
than the carbon KAFO with locked knee joints?*
Registration is required to access the GS website. The Academy does allow
participation on the site for a limited time prior to requiring Academy
and/or Society membership. To visit the Gait Society's main page, go to
<URL Redacted>.
- *Elisa de Jong, CPO, LO
Journal Club Chair*
Citation
Elisa de Jong, “New Journal Club article is posted! Check it out!,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 25, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/233472.
