Automated setup of functional electrical stimulation for drop foot using a novel 64 channel prototype stimulator and electrode array: Results from a gait-lab based study

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 74-81

  Heller, Ben W ^a   Clarke, Alison J ^b   Good, Timothy R ^b   Healey, T Jamie ^b   Nair, Siva ^b   Pratt, Emma J ^b   Reeves, Mark L ^b   van der Meulen, Jill M ^b   Barker, Anthony T ^b  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automated stimulation setup; Drop foot correction; Electrode arrays; Functional electrical stimulation; Virtual electrodes

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SETUP; AUTOMATED STIMULATION SETUP; DORSIFLEXIONS; ELECTRODE ARRAYS; FRONTAL PLANES; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; INITIAL CONTACT; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OUTPUT CHANNELS; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; RATING OF PERCEIVED EXERTIONS; SELF-ADHESIVE; VIRTUAL ELECTRODE; WALKING SPEED;

ALGORITHMS; DROPS; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; SPEED;

ELECTRODES;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BORG RATING OF PERCEIVED EXERTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSIFLEXION ANGLE; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FOOT ANGLE; FOOT MOVEMENT; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; PERONEUS NERVE PARALYSIS; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; STIMULATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84871497514     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: 18734030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2012.03.012     Document Type: Article

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