Walkaround: Mobile balance support for therapy of walking

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 264-269

  Veg, Aleksandar ^a   Popović, Dejan B ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c School of Electrical Engineering   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Hemiplegia; Posture; Rehabilitation; Walking

Indexed keywords

BALANCE (WEIGHTING); BODY WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT SUPPORT (BWS); PROTOTYPE DEVICES; RECENT DEVELOPMENT; REHABILITATION (CONSTRUCTION); SUSPENSION SYSTEMS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WALKING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; PARESIS; POSTURE; SELF-HELP DEVICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKERS;

EID: 45149101221     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2008.918424     Document Type: Article

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