The effects of a lower body exoskeleton load carriage assistive device on limits of stability and postural sway

Ergonomics

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1515-1529

  Schiffman, Jeffrey M ^a   Gregorczyk, Karen N ^a   Bensel, Carolyn K ^a   Hasselquist, Leif ^a   Obusek, John P ^a  

^a DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance; Load carriage; Random motion; Stabilogram diffusion analysis

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE DEVICES; BALANCE; BALANCE CONTROL; BODY SWAYING; FORCE PLATFORMS; LOAD CARRIAGE; LOAD WEIGHTS; POSTURAL SWAY; RANDOM MOTION; STABILOGRAM DIFFUSION ANALYSIS; STATIC LIMITS; TIME INTERVALS; US ARMY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT STABILITY; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; LOWER BODY EXOSKELETON LOAD CARRIAGE ASSISTIVE DEVICE; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; RANGE OF MOTION; RATING SCALE; REFERENCE VALUE; STABILOGRAPHY; STANDING; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADOLESCENT; BRACES; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; POSTURAL BALANCE; WEIGHT-BEARING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 52649148084     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130802248084     Document Type: Article

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