High Failure Rates When Avoiding Obstacles During Treadmill Walking in Patients With a Transtibial Amputation

Under time pressure, patients with a lower-leg prosthesis perform best when they use their nonprosthetic leg as the lead limb in an SSS. The fact that some subjects with the longest time since amputation made no errors suggests that over many years it is possible to relearn the appropriate avoidance reactions sufficiently fast.