New foot pressure activated sensory compensation system for posture-control enhancement in amputees

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 236-243

  Lee, Ming Yih ^a   Lin, Chih Feng ^a,b   Soon, Kok Soon ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Foot pressure; Posture control; Visual auditory

Indexed keywords

BIOFEEDBACK; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; EXERCISE EQUIPMENT; MOTION COMPENSATION; NEUROMUSCULAR REHABILITATION;

COMPUTERIZED FOOT PRESSURE; POSTURE CONTROL; SENSORY COMPENSATION SYSTEM; VISUAL-AUDITORY BIOFEEDBACK;

BIOMECHANICS;

EID: 34347388422     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2007.897234     Document Type: Article

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