Design and simulation of a new powered gait orthosis for paraplegic patients

Prosthetics and Orthotics International

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 125-130

  Arazpour, Mokhtar ^a   Chitsazan, Ahmad ^b   Hutchins, Stephen W ^c   Ghomshe, Farhad Tabatabai ^a   Mousavi, Mohammad Ebrahim ^a   Takamjani, Esmaeil Ebrahimi ^d   Aminian, Gholamreza ^a   Rahgozar, Mehdi ^a   Bani, Monireh Ahmadi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fabrication techniques; lower limb orthotics; paraplegia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE FOOT ORTHOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GAIT; HIP; HUMAN; KNEE; LEG; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MOBILIZATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE TONE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PARAPLEGIA; POLIOMYELITIS; RANGE OF MOTION; STROKE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING; BIOMECHANICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOTICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAIT; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PARAPLEGIA; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84862597046     PISSN: 03093646     EISSN: 17461553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309364611431481     Document Type: Article

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