The use of physical activity outcomes in rehabilitation interventions for lower limb amputees: a systematic review

A. G. Jamieson, L. Murray, A. Buis

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Interventions which have focused on improving the physical activity of individuals with lower limb amputation can be mostly categorized into behavioural-based and prosthetic-based interventions. The aim of this review was to assess the quality of these interventions, and to identify the key gaps in research in this field.

METHODOLOGY: The databases of Scopus, Pubmed, Embase, Medline and Web of Science were searched between September and December of 2019 for articles relating to physical activity, amputees and interventions. Articles were assessed quantitively based on internal validity, external validity and intervention intensity.

FINDINGS: Sixteen articles (5 behavioural, 11 prosthetic) were assessed. Both approaches had comparable methodological quality and mixed efficacy for producing a significant change in physical activity outcomes. Almost all interventions used a simplistic measurement of activity as their outcome.

CONCLUSIONS: There is an insufficient amount of studies to assess the overall efficacy of behavioural interventions in regard to how they impact on physical activity behaviour. However, the increase of quality of the methodology in the more recent studies could indicate that future interventions will retain similar levels of quality. Prosthetic interventions have shown no major improvement in efficacy compared to similar reviews and may need to utilise more advanced prosthetic components to attain significant changes in physical activity. Activity outcomes should expand into more complex activity measurements to properly understand the physical activity profile of people with lower limb amputation.
Original languageEnglish
Article number2
Number of pages15
JournalCanadian Prosthetics & Orthotics Journal
Volume3
Issue number1
Early online date19 May 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 May 2020

Keywords

  • amputation
  • rehabilitation
  • lower limb amputation
  • amputee
  • physical activity
  • lower limb prosthetics
  • exercise

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