‘A whole different ball game’: the qualitative experience of older adults with a transtibial amputation and the use of a self-aligning prosthetic ankle-foot on the STEPFORWARD trial
Open Access
- 23 April 2023
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Disability and Rehabilitation
- Vol. 46 (7) , 1422-1431
Abstract
Older patients with lower limb amputation, categorised as having “limited community mobility”, are under-researched. Understanding their experience with a new prosthetic ankle-foot is important whe...Keywords
Funding Information
- NIHR
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