A Research-Based Survey on the Challenges and Perspectives of Transfemoral Amputees in Developing Nations: Prioritizing Research for Improved Prosthetic Care

Talking about many developing countries like India, the facts and figures don't give a clear picture about the physical well-being of an amputee and medical facilities provided to them. However, many surveys are done from time to time to provide better medical aid to individuals with the amputation. These surveys are presented with the point where prosthetics are considered to be a solution to the problem, but we are completely unaware of the problem. Real problem starts from the moment amputees start using prosthetics, we as a healthy human being just can’t imagine the trauma they go through when there only hope, which is prosthetics, doesn’t give them satisfactory result. Satisfactory results, which means imitating the natural gait, the pain ,burden of putting the prosthetics and maintaining it. So, it’s not the end of the story for them it is a real struggle for them which they face every day, the moment they open their eyes their struggle starts. We call human beings the most advanced form of living creature and only one gifted with brains. Still, we aren't using it to draw to a solution to this problem which will help these amputees lead a healthy and secure life. In this paper we will focus our direction towards the lower limb amputation precisely transfemoral amputees. Study will answer all such questions as to “Why research is focused on transfemoral amputees and not transtibial amputees?”. How their struggle is different from transtibial amputees, for understanding this we need to study the structure of lower limb . In research we have conducted a survey while taken in consideration TAPES-R questionnaire and drawn the conclusion that lower limb amputees, specifically transfemoral amputees are facing many challenges which we can’t even imagine. This study will help us in breaking down the umbrella term “lower limb amputation” to crisper and to the point research focused on transfemoral amputees. In future which will help us in evaluating the pre-existing solutions to it and we can take help of state of art ML algorithm to design an efficient algorithm that will focus on developing a prosthetic knee easing their pain by reducing the constant struggle.