An electrohydraulic actuated ankle foot orthosis to generate force fields and to test proprioceptive reflexes during human walking

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 390-399

  Noël, Martin ^a   Cantin, Benoit ^a   Lambert, Sébastien ^a   Gosselin, Clément M ^b   Bouyer, Laurent J ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN REHABILITATION AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electrohydraulic system; Force field; Locomotion; Orthosis; Stretch reflex

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); ELECTRIC MACHINERY; FLUID MECHANICS; HYDRAULIC EQUIPMENT; HYDRAULICS; MECHANISMS; MOTORS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; TESTING;

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; ANKLE MUSCLES; CLOSED CIRCUITS; ELECTROHYDRAULIC SYSTEM; FORCE APPLICATION; FORCE FIELD; FORCE FIELDS; GAIT CONTROL; HIGH-VELOCITY; HUMAN WALKING; HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS; LIGHT WEIGHTING; LOCOMOTION; NEURAL MECHANISMS; ORTHOSIS; PROPRIOCEPTIVE REFLEXES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; STRETCH REFLEX; WALKING SPEEDS;

EQUIPMENT TESTING;

ACHILLES REFLEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; TORQUE; WALKING;

ADULT; ANKLE; BIOMECHANICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WALKING;

EID: 49649085542     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2008.926714     Document Type: Article

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