Efficacy of a hybrid assistive limb in post-stroke hemiplegic patients: A preliminary report

BMC Neurology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Maeshima, Shinichiro ^a   Osawa, Aiko ^a   Nishio, Daisuke ^b   Hirano, Yoshitake ^b   Takeda, Koji ^b   Kigawa, Hiroshi ^b   Sankai, Yoshiyuki ^c  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b SEIWA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; HYBRID ASSISTIVE LIMB SUIT; KNEE ANKLE FOOT ORTHOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; ORTHOSIS; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL COST INDEX; ROBOTICS; STRIDE LENGTH; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; WALKING SPEED; EVALUATION; GAIT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SELF HELP; STATISTICS; WALKING;

AGED; FEMALE; GAIT; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROBOTICS; SELF-HELP DEVICES; STROKE; WALKING;

EID: 80053365704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-11-116     Document Type: Article

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