Reciprocal gait orthoses and powered gait orthoses for walking by spinal cord injury patients

Prosthetics and Orthotics International

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 14-21

  Arazpour, Mokhtar ^a   Bani, Monireh Ahmadi ^a   Hutchins, Stephen W ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lower limb orthotics; rehabilitation of orthoses users

Indexed keywords

ANKLE FOOT ORTHOSIS; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CADENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDURANCE; ENERGY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GAIT; HIP GUIDANCE ORTHOSIS; HUMAN; MEDLINE; ORTHOSIS; POWERED GAIT ORTHOSIS; RECIPROCATING GAIT ORTHOSIS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEP LENGTH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; WALKING; WALKING DIFFICULTY; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 84874609038     PISSN: 03093646     EISSN: 17461553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309364612444665     Document Type: Conference Paper

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