Assessing Ambulatory and Non-ambulatory Community Mobility in People With Lower Limb Amputation

Study Summary

Mobility is a fundamental aspect of daily life, enabling individuals to participate in social, occupational, and recreational activities. Community mobility, defined as movement in environments outside the home, is particularly important for quality-of-life. Following lower limb amputation (LLA), mobility limitations are common and persistent. With rehabilitation and prosthetic training, many regain the ability to ambulate but results vary as only 25 - 58% of patients regain ambulatory ability and less than half of those who become ambulatory achieve sufficient ability to walk in community settings. As a result, \~40% of people with LLA are ambulatory but also use wheeled mobility (e.g., wheelchair, scooter) for some or all of their community mobility tasks. To date, the complementary role of wheeled and ambulatory mobility in maximizing community mobility has been overlooked, with clinical research overwhelmingly focused on assessing and improving ambulatory ability despite its impracticality for many community settings.

Primary Outcome

The (WHOQOL-BREF) is a standardized assessment of an individual's perceived quality of life across physical, psychological, social, and environmental domains. The WHOQOL-BREF is a widely used, 26-item self-report questionnaire from the World Health Organization that assesses an individual's Quality of Life (QOL) across four core domains: Physical Health, Psychological Health, Social Relationships, and Environment, plus two additional items for overall QOL and health. It's a brief, cross-cultural

Conditions Studied

Interventions

• OTHER Clinical Descriptive Measures related to amputation collected
• OTHER GPS device education/distributed
• OTHER activPAL device education/distributed
• OTHER Questionnaire Assessments completed

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