Basic walker-assisted gait characteristics derived from forces and moments exerted on the walker's handles: Results on normal subjects

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 380-389

  Alwan, Majd ^a   Ledoux, Alexandre ^b   Wasson, Glenn ^b   Sheth, Pradip ^b   Huang, Cunjun ^b  

^a Medical Automation Research Center   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection of gait phases; Detection of heel initial contact; Passive assessment of gait characteristics; Walker assisted gait

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA STRUCTURES; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAIT ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

GAIT PHASES; PASSIVE ASSESSMENT; STRAIGHT LINE SEGMENTS; WALKER ASSISTED GAITS;

WALKING AIDS;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTACT ANGLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GAIT; HEEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MUSCLE FORCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION STUDY; WALKING; WALKING AID;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; EXERTION; GAIT; HEEL; HUMANS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO RECORDING; WALKING;

EID: 33845288653     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.06.001     Document Type: Article

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