Abstract
Background:
Advances in prosthetic technology promise better functional outcomes for amputees, but real-world impact on veteran mobility and QoL is under-studied. We examined whether Saudi veterans using advanced biomechanical prostheses achieve superior mobility and QoL compared to those with conventional devices.
Methods: The authors describe a retrospective comparison of 214 veterans receiving advanced or conventional limb prostheses. The abstract originally called all participants lower-limb amputees; the methods and Table 1 also describe upper-limb amputees, with inconsistent group counts. Cohort definitions, follow-up, reported missingness and analytic denominators require verification against source records.
Results: Reported group outcomes are retained in the manuscript tables. The reported time points, denominators and missing-data descriptions conflict and require reconstruction and independent reanalysis before numerical findings can be interpreted.
Conclusions: The observational comparison requires separate denominators for upper- and lower-limb prosthesis users and for each follow-up time. Gait outcomes apply to the eligible lower-limb cohort. Baseline mobility and device selection should be considered when interpreting associations.
Keywords
- prosthetics
- amputation
- veterans
- mobility
- quality of life
- Saudi Arabia
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