Design and testing of a functional arm orthosis in patients with neuromuscular diseases

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 244-251

  Rahman, Tariq ^a   Sample, Whitney ^a   Seliktar, Rahamim ^b   Scavina, Mena T ^a   Clark, Alisa L ^a   Moran, Kacy ^c   Alexander, Michael A ^a  

^a NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Lawall's Prosthetics and Orthotics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Arm orthosis; Muscle weakness; Neuromuscular disease

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NEUROMUSCULAR REHABILITATION; PATIENT MONITORING; WHEELCHAIRS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MUSCLE;

FUNCTIONAL ARM ORTHOSIS; JEBSEN TASKS; PASSIVE GRAVITY-BALANCED ARM ORTHOSIS; RANGE-OF-MOTION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; WHEELCHAIRS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; ORTHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; ROBOTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHEELCHAIR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; ROBOTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLINICAL TESTING; DAILY LIVING; FOUR-DEGREES-OF-FREEDOM; HAND FUNCTION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; ORTHOSIS; RANGE-OF-MOTION; ROBOTIC EXOSKELETONS; RUBBER BANDS; SPECIFIC TASKS; TEST TASKS; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

EID: 77955079261     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2007.897026     Document Type: Article

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