Active Knee Prosthesis Study

Running, not enrolling · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Transfemoral Amputation

In brief

The purpose of the study is to investigate the clinical and functional outcomes of a powered knee prosthesis for people with a transfemoral amputation in the domain of gait, free space control, and embodiment

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06700668

Run by

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

People needed

7

Starts

2008-04-17

Expected to finish

2026-07-17

Last updated by the study team

2025-10-14

Who can join

Age: 22 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Male or Female age 22-65.
• The patient must have a unilateral transfemoral amputation .
• The patient must have the ability to ambulate at variable cadence (an expected lower extremity prosthesis functional level of K3 or above).
• The patient must have adequate socket to support the device.

You may not qualify if…

• Women who are pregnant.
• Severe co morbidity, atypical skeletal anatomy, or poor general physical/mental health that, in the opinion of the Investigator, will not allow the subject to be a good study candidate (i.e. other disease processes, mental capacity, substance abuse, shortened life expectancy, vulnerable patient population, BMI >40, etc.).

Where it is running

• MIT Media Lab — Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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