Development of an active ankle foot orthosis for the prevention of foot drop and toe drag

ICBPE 2006 - Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 418-423

  Hwang, Sungjae ^a   Kim, Jungyoon ^a   Yi, Jinbock ^a,b   Tae, Kisik ^a   Ryu, Kihong ^a   Kim, Youngho ^a  

^a Yonsei University Wonju   (South Korea)

^b Hanseo University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Active ankle foot orthosis; Dorsiflexion; Foot drop; Plantarklexion; Toe drag

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; DRAG; FLUID MECHANICS; WEIGHT CONTROL;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; 3D MOTION ANALYSIS; ANKLE JOINTS; DORSI FLEXION; DRIVING FORCES; FOOT DROP; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; HEEL STRIKE; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LOADING RESPONSE; NEAR INFRA-RED (NIR); ORTHOSIS; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING; SWING PHASE;

DROPS;

EID: 46249113271     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBPE.2006.348627     Document Type: Conference Paper

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