Muscle activation of stroke patients during stair climbing in robot assisted gait training

Proceedings of the 2nd Biennial IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 875-880

  Hussein, S ^a   Schmidt, H ^a   Volkmar, M ^c   Kruger J ^b   Hesse, S ^c  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PRODUCTION SYSTEMS AND DESIGN TECHNOLOGY IPK   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY WEIGHTS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; DAILY LIVES; DAILY LIVINGS; GAIT FUNCTIONS; GAIT MOTIONS; GAIT REHABILITATIONS; GAIT TRAININGS; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; MOTOR CONTROLS; MUSCLE ACTIVATIONS; REHABILITATION ROBOTS; REPETITIVE TRAININGS; STAIR-CLIMBING; STROKE PATIENTS; WEIGHT BEARINGS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; MOTION CONTROL; PATIENT REHABILITATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; STAIRS;

MUSCLE;

EID: 63049119067     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOROB.2008.4762934     Document Type: Conference Paper

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