Effects of robot-driven gait orthosis treadmill training on the autonomic response in rehabilitation-responsive stroke and cervical spondylotic myelopathy patients

Gait and Posture

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 199-204

  Magagnin, Valentina ^a   Bo, Ivano ^a   Turiel, Maurizio ^b   Fornari, Maurizio ^a   Caiani, Enrico G ^c   Porta, Alberto ^b  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO ORTOPEDICO GALEAZZI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heart rate variability; Motor rehabilitation; Robotic assisted locomotion; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BODY WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT SUPPORTED TREADMILL TRAINING; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CERVICAL SPONDYLOTIC MYELOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; ORTHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; ROBOTICS; STROKE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING SPEED;

AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; ROBOTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 77954660315     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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