Immediate effects of a controllable knee ankle foot orthosis for functional compensation of gait in patients with proximal leg weakness

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-53

  Moreno, Juan C ^a   Brunetti, Fernando ^a   Rocon, Eduardo ^a   Pons, José L ^a  

^a Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Actuator; Gait; Inertial sensing; Joints disorders; KAFO

Indexed keywords

INERTIAL SENSING; JOINTS DISORDERS; KNEE ANKLE FOOT ORTHOSIS;

ACTUATORS; BIOMECHANICS; GAIT ANALYSIS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); KINEMATICS;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

ANKLE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FOOT; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; KNEE; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG MOVEMENT; LIMB WEAKNESS; ORTHOSIS; POSTPOLIOMYELITIS SYNDROME; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SAFETY; STANDING;

ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; POSTPOLIOMYELITIS SYNDROME; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

EID: 37549025784     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-007-0267-x     Document Type: Article

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