A two-degree-of-freedom motor-powered gait orthosis for spinal cord injury patients

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine

Volumn 221, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 629-639

  Ohta, Yuji ^a   Yano, H ^a   Suzuki, R ^a   Yoshida, M ^a   Kawashima, N ^b   Nakazawa, K ^b  

^a OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compensatory motion; Inter subject experiment; Linear actuator; Powered gait orthosis; Spinal cord injury patients

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BENDING STRENGTH; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); GAIT ANALYSIS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); HIP PROSTHESES; ORTHOTICS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; WALKING AIDS;

ADVANCED RECIPROCATING GAIT ORTHOSIS; LATERAL COMPENSATORY MOTION; LINEAR ACTUATOR;

ORTHOTICS; LINEAR ACTUATORS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ORTHOTICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

COMPENSATORY MOTION; POWERED GAIT ORTHOSIS; RECIPROCATING GAIT ORTHOSIS; SIMULTANEOUS OPERATION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES (SCI); SPINAL CORD INJURY PATIENTS; SUBJECT EXPERIMENT; TWO-DEGREE OF FREEDOM;

EID: 35148884749     PISSN: 09544119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544119JEIM55     Document Type: Article

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