Design and evaluation of a stance-control knee-ankle-foot orthosis knee joint

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 361-369

  Yakimovich, Terris ^a,e   Kofman, Jonathan ^b,e   Lemaire, Edward D ^c,d  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c Rehabilitation Centre   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e IEEE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design; Evaluation; Knee joint; Knee ankle foot orthosis (KAFO); Orthosis; Stance control

Indexed keywords

KNEE JOINT; KNEE-ANKLE-FOOT ORTHOSIS (KAFO); ORTHOSIS; STANCE CONTROL;

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; JOINT PROSTHESES; MUSCLE; PRODUCT DESIGN;

BIOMECHANICS;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; DEVICE; EVALUATION; FOOT ORTHOSIS; FOREST DYNAMICS; FRICTION; GAIT; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; JOINT FUNCTION; KNEE FUNCTION; MATERIALS TESTING; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; PROSTHESIS; RANGE OF MOTION; STANCE CONTROL KNEE ANKLE FOOT ORTHOSIS; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; WALKING AID; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANKLE JOINT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FOOT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN;

EID: 33749596994     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2006.881578     Document Type: Article

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