Stimulation parameter optimization for FES supported standing up and walking in SCI patients

Artificial Organs

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 220-223

  Bijak, Manfred ^a   Rakos, Monika ^b   Hofer, Christian ^c   Mayr, Winfried ^a   Strohhofer, Maria ^c   Raschka, Doris ^c   Kern, Helmut ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH   (Austria)

^c WILHELMINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

Functional electrical stimulation; Paraplegic patients; Spastic lesion; Standing up; Walking

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; NEURONS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

FUNCTIONAL ELECTRI-CAL STIMULATIONS; LEG MOVEMENT; MOTOR NEURONS; NATURAL MOVEMENTS; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; PARAPLEGIC PATIENTS; SPASTIC LESION; STANDING-UP; STIMULATION PARAMETERS; WALKING;

MUSCLE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; LEG MOVEMENT; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE REFLEX; NERVE STIMULATION; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SKIN ELECTRODE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STANDING; WALKING; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; HIP; KNEE; LEG; MICROCOMPUTER; PARAPLEGIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WEIGHT BEARING;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LEG; MICROCOMPUTERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARAPLEGIA; POSTURE; SOFTWARE; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 20644436902     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2005.29039.x     Document Type: Article

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