Functional and biological test of a 20 channel implantable stimulator in sheep in view of functional electrical stimulation walking for spinal cord injured persons

Artificial Organs

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 467-474

  Bijak, Manfred ^a   Mayr, Winfried ^a   Girsch, Werner ^a   Lanmüller, Hermann ^a   Unger, Ewald ^a   Stöhr, Hans ^a   Thoma, Herwig ^a   Plenk Jr , Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Animal experiments; Implantable stimulator; Lower extremities; Selectivity

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS; BIOLOGICAL TESTS; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRI-CAL STIMULATIONS; FUNCTIONAL TEST; HIP AND KNEE EXTENSIONS; IMPLANTABLE STIMULATORS; LOWER EXTREMITY; SELECTIVE STIMULATIONS; SELECTIVITY; SPINAL-CORD;

ELECTRODES;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; FEMALE; FLEXOR REFLEX; FOREIGN BODY; GAIT; HIP; IMPLANT; JOINT MOBILITY; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NONHUMAN; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIATIC NERVE; SHEEP; SLOW MUSCLE FIBER; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STANDING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WALKING;

EID: 0034822563     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1594.2001.025006467.x     Document Type: Article

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