Passive-dynamic ankle-foot orthosis improves medium-term clinical outcomes after severe lower extremity trauma.

"Competing interests: NB is the developer of the orthosis and an employee of Blatchford. Blatchford supplies the orthosis to the UK Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) Headley Court and has commercial interests in the product. NB’s role is to fit the orthosis at DMRC. NB has no financial interests, patent or licensing agreements. NB did not perform any data analysis as part of the study. All remaining authors certify no commercial associations (eg, consultancies, stock ownership, equity interest, patent/licensing arrangements, and so on) that might pose a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article."

"Funding: The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors."