Disabled people are considered under WHO recommandations for daily physical activity, but standard measures used for healthy people could them really be used at the same for disabled ?
In other way, for example, for a femoral amputee, walking at 4m/s speed is it under 3 MET (very low level activity) or over (low activity)?
Emmanuelle Cugy Firstly, physical activity guidelines expressed using Metabolic Equivalent Tasks (METs) are not useful for the general public. The concept of METs is difficult to understand and few people are familiar with it. It is really challenging for the public to know the MET values for any/all the activities they do.
Secondly, The energy consumption in people with limb amputation would be certainly much higher for amputees. To my knowledge METs values and disability have not been worked on very much. See recent systematic review
Metabolic costs of activities of daily living in persons with a lower limb amputation: A systematic review and meta-analysis. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30893346
Thirdly, there has been some work on METs and paraplegia which may help guide you. Article Determining metabolic equivalent values of physical activiti...
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