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In this study, we sought to simultaneously and independently assess patient and prosthetist preference for prosthetic foot stiffness using a custom variable-stiffness prosthesis. In the first part of the experiment, seven subjects with below-knee amputation walked on the variable-stiffness prosthetic foot set to a randomized stiffness, while several prosthetist subjects simultaneously observed their gait. After each trial, the amputee subjects and prosthetist subjects indicated the change to stiffness that they would prefer (increase or decrease). This paradigm allowed us to simultaneously measure amputee subject and prosthetist subject preferences, and provided a reliability index indicating the consistency of their preferences. In the second part of the experiment, amputee subjects were instructed to communicate verbally with one prosthetist subject to arrive at a mutually preferred stiffness. On average, prosthetist subjects preferred a 26% higher stiffness than amputee subjects (\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009&lt;\u20090.001), though this depended on the amputee subject (\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009&lt;\u20090.001). Prosthetist subjects were also considerably less consistent than amputee subjects in their preferences (CV of 5.6% for amputee subjects, CV of 23% for prosthetist subjects;\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u20090.014). Mutual preference seemed to be dictated by the specific patient-prosthetist dynamic, and no clear trends emerged.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1038\/s41598-020-72131-2","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,30]],"date-time":"2020-09-30T06:05:26Z","timestamp":1601445926000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":40,"title":["Comparing preference of ankle\u2013foot stiffness in below-knee amputees and prosthetists"],"prefix":"10.1038","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Max K.","family":"Shepherd","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Elliott J.","family":"Rouse","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,9,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"72131_CR1","first-page":"717","volume-title":"Atlas of Limb Prosthetics","author":"JH Bowker","year":"1992","unstructured":"Bowker, J. 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