Millions of people need above-the-knee prostheses, yet their designs are not perfected. The goal of this project was to create a knee prosthesis that aids users in traversing stairs with greater ease than current knee prostheses. Our prosthesis utilized a four-bar mechanism to mimic the motion and forces a healthy knee sustains; the prosthesis resulted in an improvement in knee flexion angles while walking and stair traversing compared to current models. Overall, our prosthesis successfully met the necessary design goals.

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Creator

• Edel, Katharine G.
• Shanabrook, Rhianna M.
• Hoac, Sarah

Subject

• Project-Based Learning
• Health

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-033021-112749
• 16631

Keyword

• Stairs
• Solidworks
• Four-Bar Linkage
• Medical Devices
• Knee Prosthesis

Advisor

• Sullivan, John M.

Year

• 2021

Sponsor

• John Sullivan

Date created

• 2021-03-30

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-05-03