BIONic WalkAide for correcting foot drop

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 242-246

  Weber, Douglas J ^a   Stein, Richard B ^a,c   Chan, K Ming ^a,d   Loeb, Gerald ^b,e,f   Richmond, Frances ^b   Rolf, Robert ^a   James, Kelly ^a,g   Chong, Su Ling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c Rehabilitation Neuroscience Group   (Canada)

^d ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^f American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering   (United States)

^g Association of Professional Engineers Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta   (Canada)

Author keywords

BION; Foot drop; Functional electrical stimulation (FES); Spinal cord injury (SCI); Stroke

Indexed keywords

FOOT DROP STIMULATORS; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION (FES); PHYSIOLOGICAL COST INDEX (PCI); SURFACE STIMULATION;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; GAIT ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS; MUSCLE; SIMULATORS;

BIONICS;

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BIONICS; CASE REPORT; DEEP PERONEUS NERVE; DEVICE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MICROSTIMULATOR; NERVE STIMULATION; PERONEUS NERVE; PERONEUS NERVE PARALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL COST INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STROKE; SURFACE STIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; TECHNOLOGY; WALKING AID;

ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; BIONICS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 22544461073     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2005.847385     Document Type: Article

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