Exercise tricycle for paraplegics

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 118-121

  Gfohler M ^a,b   Loicht, M ^b   Lugner, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b HTBL VA XX ^*

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Functional electrical stimulation; Paraplegics; Rehabilitation; Tricycle

Indexed keywords

EXERCISE EQUIPMENT; FORCE MEASUREMENT; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GONIOMETERS; MUSCLE; POSITION MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

EXERCISE TRICYCLE; PARAPLEGICS;

HUMAN REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT;

ARTICLE; CYCLING; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GONIOMETRY; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; MUSCLE FORCE; PARAPLEGIA; VELOCITY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HUMANS; PARAPLEGIA; SELF-HELP DEVICES;

EID: 0031965343     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02522868     Document Type: Article

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