Design and development of inexpensive pneumatically-powered assisted knee-ankle-foot orthosis for gait rehabilitation-preliminary finding

2012 International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, ICoBE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 28-32

  Teng, Chunman ^a   Wong, Zhenyang ^a   Teh, Weyyew ^a   Chong, Yu Zheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Gait rehabilitation; Knee ankle foot orthosis; Pneumatic artificial muscle

Indexed keywords

ANKLE-FOOT ORTHOSIS; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; GAIT REHABILITATION; GENERAL APPROACH; LOWER EXTREMITY; NORMAL WALKING; ORTHOSIS; PNEUMATIC ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; PROOF OF CONCEPT; REHABILITATION DEVICES; REHABILITATION ROBOTICS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; PNEUMATIC DRIVES; WALKING AIDS;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

EID: 84860684980     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICoBE.2012.6178949     Document Type: Conference Paper

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