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Prof Laurence Kenney's Outputs (136)

Delivering Universal Health Care to People with Major Limb Loss or Damage in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Complex Intervention in Uganda (2025)
Book

This Open Access book addresses the need for rehabilitation services for people impacted by Major Limb Loss in Low and Middle Income Countries. It focuses on a Complex Intervention study in Uganda supporting the provision of affordable and accessible... Read More about Delivering Universal Health Care to People with Major Limb Loss or Damage in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Complex Intervention in Uganda.

Introducing an adjustable upper limb prosthesis into a Ugandan clinical service: impacts on free living behaviour and prosthetic use (2025)
Journal Article

Access to prosthetic services in Uganda is poor, negatively impacting people with upper limb difference in function, community participation, and employment. Technologies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of services are needed, but there i... Read More about Introducing an adjustable upper limb prosthesis into a Ugandan clinical service: impacts on free living behaviour and prosthetic use.

Pigs Going Out on a Limb: Proof of concept of a video fluoroscopy method for measuring trans-radial socket-residuum coupling (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background
Complaints about comfort and function are consistently associated with prosthetic non-use and abandonment, and the design of sockets likely impacts both aspects [1]. Socket fit can be considered the compromise between socket function and... Read More about Pigs Going Out on a Limb: Proof of concept of a video fluoroscopy method for measuring trans-radial socket-residuum coupling.

Validation of a marker-based motion capture method for measuring the coupling between the ulna and a bypass socket attached to the forearm (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background
Poor comfort and function are consistently linked to prosthetic non-use and abandonment [1]. Current prosthetic devices are considered to “not offer sufficient functional advantage to compensate for any inconvenience or discomfort involve... Read More about Validation of a marker-based motion capture method for measuring the coupling between the ulna and a bypass socket attached to the forearm.

Can a novel set of handgrips on a walking frame increase stability and support users when transferring to/from a chair? (2025)
Journal Article

Introduction: One important aspect of walking aid use is transferring safely to the aid from sitting and transferring back to the chair after walking, since these activities have been associated with falls in older adults. Standard frames require the... Read More about Can a novel set of handgrips on a walking frame increase stability and support users when transferring to/from a chair?.

Example videos from NIHR201310 (2025)
Digital Artefact
Kenney, L. (2025). Example videos from NIHR201310

This folder contains two video files. Example 1 illustrates one of our participants performing the pick-and-place task using the instrumented test prosthesis (novel housing condition). Synchronous video and EMG data are shown, together with text to h... Read More about Example videos from NIHR201310.

Datasets associated with 'Introducing an adjustable upper limb prosthesis into a Ugandan clinical service: Impacts on free living behaviour and prosthetic use' (2025)
Data

This database contains all the raw, unprocessed data collected from two different activity monitors monitoring upper-limb prosthetic use and physical activity.

This data was collected from eight Ugandan participants with trans-radial limb loss acr... Read More about Datasets associated with 'Introducing an adjustable upper limb prosthesis into a Ugandan clinical service: Impacts on free living behaviour and prosthetic use'.

Replication of clinical prosthetic sockets for research purposes (2024)
Journal Article
Chadwell, A., Kenney, L., Prince, M., Olsen, J., & Dyson, M. (2024). Replication of clinical prosthetic sockets for research purposes. Prosthetics and Orthotics International, https://doi.org/10.1097/PXR.0000000000000386



For research in the field of prosthetics to be representative of clinical realities, studies require inclusion of clinical standard prosthetic sockets. This necessitates involvement of a prosthetist (clinical professional) in any study, which is... Read More about Replication of clinical prosthetic sockets for research purposes.

A scoping review of digital fabrication techniques applied to prosthetics & orthotics: Part 2 of 2—orthotics (2024)
Journal Article

Introduction: Traditionally, orthosis manufacturing is time and labor-intensive. Digitalization of some of the fabrication process is already ubiquitous, yet extension across device types could reduce the burden of manual labor and advance automation... Read More about A scoping review of digital fabrication techniques applied to prosthetics & orthotics: Part 2 of 2—orthotics.

Wear and use of prostheses in sport by adolescents with upper limb absence: A preliminary mixed-methods study (2024)
Journal Article
M. Chinn, N., P. J. Kenney, L., Chadwell, A., E. Williams, A., & Head, J. (2024). Wear and use of prostheses in sport by adolescents with upper limb absence: A preliminary mixed-methods study. Prosthetics and Orthotics International, https://doi.org/10.1097/PXR.0000000000000394

Background:

There is minimal research on sports participation in adolescents with upper limb absence (ULA) and specifically on the impact of prosthesis provision.

Objectives:

This study explored using activity monitoring sensors and interv... Read More about Wear and use of prostheses in sport by adolescents with upper limb absence: A preliminary mixed-methods study.

The Introduction of an Adjustable Upper Limb Prosthetic Socket System into a Ugandan Clinical Service (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction and Objectives
Previous studies found that people with upper-limb absence (ULA) in Uganda experience poor access to prosthetic services, and often have to manage without a prosthesis. Our previous qualitative work found that social inte... Read More about The Introduction of an Adjustable Upper Limb Prosthetic Socket System into a Ugandan Clinical Service.

A scoping review of digital fabrication techniques applied to prosthetics and orthotics: Part 1 of 2—Prosthetics (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Traditionally, the manufacture of prostheses is time-consuming and labor-intensive. One possible route to improving access and quality of these devices is the digitalizing of the fabrication process, which may reduce the burden of manual... Read More about A scoping review of digital fabrication techniques applied to prosthetics and orthotics: Part 1 of 2—Prosthetics.

A quantitative comparison between the mHand Adapt passive adjustable hand prosthesis and its predecessor, the Delft Self-Grasping Hand (2024)
Journal Article
Krinis, S., Chadwell, A., Kenney, L., & Smit, G. (in press). A quantitative comparison between the mHand Adapt passive adjustable hand prosthesis and its predecessor, the Delft Self-Grasping Hand. PLoS ONE, 19(3), e0300469. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0300469

Introduction: The Delft Self-Grasping Hand (SGH) is an adjustable passive hand prosthesis that relies on wrist flexion to adjust the aperture of its grasp. The mechanism requires engagement of the contralateral hand meaning that hand is not available... Read More about A quantitative comparison between the mHand Adapt passive adjustable hand prosthesis and its predecessor, the Delft Self-Grasping Hand.

Evaluation of a novel biomechanics-informed walking frame, developed through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership between biomechanists and design engineers (2023)
Journal Article
Thies, S. B., Bevan, S., Wassall, M., Kurissinkal, B., Chowalloor, L., Kenney, L., & Howard, D. (2023). Evaluation of a novel biomechanics-informed walking frame, developed through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership between biomechanists and design engineers. BMC Geriatrics, 23(1), 734. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-04443-7

Background: Walking aids such as walking frames offer support during walking, yet paradoxically, people who self-report using them remain more likely to fall than people who do not. Lifting of walking frames when crossing door thresholds or when turn... Read More about Evaluation of a novel biomechanics-informed walking frame, developed through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership between biomechanists and design engineers.

Adjustable prosthetic sockets: a systematic review of industrial and research design characteristics and their justifications. (2023)
Journal Article

BackgroundThe prosthetic socket is a key component that influences prosthesis satisfaction, with a poorly fitting prosthetic socket linked to prosthesis abandonment and reduced community participation. This paper reviews adjustable socket designs, as... Read More about Adjustable prosthetic sockets: a systematic review of industrial and research design characteristics and their justifications..