Design and evaluation of a hybrid passive and active Gravity Neutral Orthosis (GNO)

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1573-1576

  Koo, Benjamin ^b   Montes, Jacqueline ^b   Gamarnik, Viktor ^a   Yeager, Keith ^a   Marra, Jonathan ^b   Dunaway, Sally ^b   Montgomery, Megan ^b   De Vivo, Darryl C ^b   Strauss, Nancy ^b   Konofagou, Elisa ^a   Kaufmann, Petra ^b   Morrison, Barclay ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROMUSCULAR REHABILITATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; FUNCTIONAL ARM MOVEMENT; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 77951003884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332578     Document Type: Conference Paper

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