Design of a robotic gait trainer using spring over muscle actuators for ankle stroke rehabilitation

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1009-1013

  Bharadwaj, Kartik ^a   Sugar, Thomas G ^a   Koeneman, James B ^b   Koeneman, Edward J ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kinetic Muscles Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; MACHINE DESIGN; MUSCLE; PATIENT REHABILITATION; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS;

ANKLE STROKE REHABILITATION; HUMAN ANATOMY; MUSCLE ACTUATORS; ROBOTIC GAIT TRAINER (RGT);

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

ANKLE; ARTICLE; DEVICE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAIT; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT MOBILITY; KINEMATICS; LEG; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PNEUMATIC TOOL; ROBOTIC GAIT TRAINER; ROBOTICS; STROKE;

ANKLE JOINT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; ROBOTICS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 27444432543     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2049333     Document Type: Article

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