About the Authors

Hafizur Rahman

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biomechanics, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center of Nebraska and Western Iowa, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Iraklis I. Pipinos

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center of Nebraska and Western Iowa, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Jason M. Johanning

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center of Nebraska and Western Iowa, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Sara A. Myers

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

samyers@unomaha.edu

Affiliations Department of Biomechanics, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center of Nebraska and Western Iowa, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors would like to declare that ankle-foot orthoses were donated to the University of Nebraska at Omaha by Ottobock, for a related project (NIH study R01HD090333). No data from those studies were included in this work. We confirm that the donation of ankle-foot orthoses does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.