Automatic vs hand-controlled walking of paraplegics

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-73

  Popović, Dejan ^a   Radulović, Milovan ^b   Schwirtlich, Laszlo ^c   Jauković, Novak ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTENEGRO   (Montenegro)

^c Inst for Rehab Dr Miroslav Zotovic ^*

Author keywords

Automatic control; Energy cost; Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES); Paraplegia; Physiological cost index; Walking

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MUSCLE; NEURAL NETWORKS; WALKING AIDS;

PARAPLEGICS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ERROR; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HAND; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KINEMATICS; LEG MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SIMULATION; SPINAL CORD LESION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; WALKING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAIT; INSTRUMENTATION; LEG; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAIT; HAND; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PARAPLEGIA; VOLITION; WALKING;

EID: 0037213690     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(02)00188-1     Document Type: Article

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