Restoration of stance phase knee flexion during walking after spinal cord injury using a variable impedance orthosis

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 608-611

  Bulea, Thomas C ^a   Kobetic, Rudi ^b   Triolo, Ronald J ^c  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLE-BODIED GAIT; CLOSED LOOPS; FINITE-STATE CONTROLLERS; FUNCTIONAL NEUROMUSCULAR STIMULATION; KNEE FLEXIONS; LOWER EXTREMITY; NEURO-PROSTHESIS; ORTHOSIS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STANCE PHASE; UNEVEN TERRAIN; VARIABLE IMPEDANCE;

NEUROSURGERY; RESTORATION;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; KNEE PROSTHESIS; NEUROLOGIC GAIT DISORDER; ORTHOSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VISCOSITY; YOUNG MODULUS; EQUIPMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ORTHOTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELASTIC MODULUS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84861936436     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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