Kinematic trajectories while walking within the Lokomat robotic gait-orthosis

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1251-1259

  Hidler, Joseph ^a,b   Wisman, Wessel ^c   Neckel, Nathan ^a,b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gait; Kinematics; Lokomat; Rehabilitation; Robotics

Indexed keywords

MECHANICS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SPORTING GOODS;

DEGREES OF FREEDOMS; GAIT; GAIT PATTERNS; GAIT TRAININGS; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; JOINT ANGLES; KINEMATIC PATTERNS; KINEMATIC TRAJECTORIES; LINEAR MOTIONS; LOKOMAT; MEASURING TECHNIQUES; ORTHOSIS; RANGE OF MOTIONS; REHABILITATION; REHABILITATION DEVICES; SET-UPS; STEP PATTERNS; TREADMILL WALKINGS;

KINEMATICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; ROBOTICS; TREADMILL; WALKING;

ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GAIT; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MOTION THERAPY, CONTINUOUS PASSIVE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; ROBOTICS; SELF-HELP DEVICES; WALKING;

EID: 56249131071     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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