Gait Analysis
Prosthetics
Amputations
Shoes and Lower/Upper Limb Orthotics
Other orthotics
100
This is the linear distance in teh plane of progression between corresponding successive contact points of opposite feet.
What is step length?
100
This is the most commonly used upper extremity harness
What is figure-eight or O-ring harness?
100
This is the leading cause of acquired amputation in the upper extremitiy.
What is trauma?
100
This is the most flexible plastic AFO.
What is posterior leaf-spring orthosis?
100
This is a cervical orthosis that provides the best control of motion in all planes.
What is Halo vest?
200
This is the name of a gait abnormality when the hip abductor muscles are weak and the contralateral hip drops.
What is Trendelenberg gait?
200
This is the standard socket for average BKA.
What is patellar tendon bearing socket?
200
This is the term to describe an amputation procedure where muscles and fascia are sutured directly to bone through drill holes.
What is myodesis?
200
This is a bilateral KAFO designed for standing ambulation in adults with paraparesis.
What is a Scott-Craig orthosis?
200
This is a flexion control TLSO used to permit upright position while preventing flexion after compression fracture in the thoracolumbar spine.
What is a Jewett brace?
300
This is the percentage of the gait cycle in stance phase.
What is 60%
300
This is a knee unit responsive through cadence responsive resistance which controlls knee velocity during stance AND swing phase.
What is hydraulic and pneumatic control unit?
300
This is an ankle disarticulation procedure with attachment of the distal heel pad to the end of the tibia.
What is Syme's amputation?
300
This is used in C6 complete tetraplegia to provide prehension and maintain flexibility of hand, wrist and elbow.
What is a wrist driven prehension orthosis, tenodesis orthosis, flexor hinge splint?
300
This is a cervico-thoracic-lumbo-sacral orthosis used for scoliosis.
What is a Milwaukee brace?
400
This is the location of the body's center of gravity.
What is 5cm anterior to the second sacral vertebra?
400
This is the frequency a prosthetic should be replaced in a child during the first 5 years of age.
What is every year?
400
Wartlike skin overgrowth usually of the residual distal limb resulting from inadequate socket wall contact with subsequent edema formation.
What is verrucous hyperplasia?
400
This is a special design of HKAFO used for upper lumbar paralysis in which active hip flexion is preserved.
What is a reciprocal gait orthosis?
400
This is a shoulder-elbow-wrist-hand orthosis that consists of a forearm trough and a mount.
What is a balanced forearm orthosis?
500
These are the 2 phases and 8 subdivisions of the gait cycle.
What is Stace phase (initial contact, loading response, midstance, terminal swing, preswing) and Swing phase (initial swing, midswing and terminal swing). I Like My Tea Presweetened In My Teapot
500
This is a reason that a patient with a prothetic might rise on the toe of the sound foot to swing the prosthesis through with little knee flexion.
What is too long prosthesis or inadequate socket suspension?
500
This is the age to first fit a prosthesis for a transradial congenital limb deficiency.
What is 6 months?
500
This is a front-laced shoe in which the quarters are not attached distally to the vamp and remain loose and fully open.
What is a Blucher shoe?
500
This is a brace used in management of unstable cervical spine which is better than the Halo in preschool-aged children.
What is a Minerva brace?
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