Quantifying Effects of a Carbon Ankle Foot Orthosis on Ankle Stiffness

This description will be included in Annual Meeting promotional materials if your paper is accepted.: Through data collection of passive ankle joint stiffness both barefoot and with an Ottobock WalkOn Trimable AFO, pilot data analysis was completed. An isokinetic dynamometer measured the torque so that calculation of stiffness and descriptive statistics for the entire range of motion as well as isolated plantarflexion and dorsiflexion ranges could be visualized. The purpose is to help provide normative stiffness values with a standardized process to move into alignment of device stiffness to patient biomechanics.