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This study aimed to evaluate the muscle activation patterns and levels in athletes with amputation during 4 basic and modified weight-bearing core strength-training exercises. <jats:italic><jats:bold>Methods<\/jats:bold>:<\/jats:italic> Fifteen elite athletes with unilateral amputation (170.6 [7.3]\u00a0cm; 63.9 [11.9]\u00a0kg; 25.9 [5.3]\u00a0y) volunteered for this study. Surface electromyography was used to measure the muscle activity mainly in the lumbopelvic\u2013hip complex-stabilizing muscles during 4 kinetic chain trunk exercises with and without modifications. <jats:italic><jats:bold>Results<\/jats:bold>:<\/jats:italic> The significance level was set at <jats:italic>\u03b1<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.05. The results showed a significant difference in muscle activation between different body sides (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u2009.05). Specifically, amputation on the support position resulted in a diagonal pattern of muscle activation, and amputation on the free distal segments resulted in a unilateral dominant pattern with higher activation in muscles on the nonamputated side (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u2009.05). Modifications led to significant decreases in muscle activation asymmetry index (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u2009.05). <jats:italic><jats:bold>Conclusions<\/jats:bold>:<\/jats:italic> Amputation caused muscle activation asymmetry and 2 activation patterns. Modifications by enhancing proximal stability and adjusting distal loading effectively reduced the asymmetry of muscle activation. 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