New study further disputes notion that amputee runners gain advantage from protheses
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 14:56
in Psychology & Sociology
A study by six researchers, including a University of Colorado at Boulder associate professor and his former doctoral student, shows that amputees who use running-specific prosthetic legs have no performance advantage over counterparts who use their biological legs.
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