The effects of long-term FES-assisted walking on intrinsic and reflex dynamic stiffness in spastic spinal-cord-injured subjects

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 280-289

  Mirbagheri, Mehdi M ^a,b,c   Ladouceur, Michel ^d   Barbeau, Hugues ^a   Kearney, Robert E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ankle; Functional electrical stimulation (FES); Spasticity; Stiffness; Stretch reflex; System identification

Indexed keywords

JOINTS (ANATOMY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STIFFNESS; TORQUE; WALKING AIDS;

THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MODEL; MYOTATIC REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; RIGIDITY; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REFLEX, STRETCH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TORQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 0036991727     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2002.806838     Document Type: Article

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