Optimizing Gait Rehabilitation for Veterans With Non-traumatic Lower Limb Amputation

Split-belt treadmill training to enhance between-limb asymmetry during treadmill walking, which is intended to force compensation and correction of step asymmetry during treadmill walking. The error-augmentation gait training program is delivered in 8 sessions over 4 weeks.

Metronome will be set to cue participants to overcorrect between-limb step asymmetry during treadmill walking, through use of asymmetrical metronome tones in a 2:1 ratio. The error-correction gait training program is delivered in 8 sessions over 4 weeks.

An active comparator intervention, in which a supervised treadmill walking program is delivered without attempt to correct step asymmetry. The supervised walking program is delivered in 8 sessions over 4 weeks.