Feasibility of rehabilitation training with a newly developed wearable robot for patients with limited mobility

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1080-1087

  Kubota, Shigeki ^a   Nakata, Yoshio ^a,b   Eguchi, Kiyoshi ^b   Kawamoto, Hiroaki ^a   Kamibayashi, Kiyotaka ^a   Sakane, Masataka ^a,b   Sankai, Yoshiyuki ^a   Ochiai, Naoyuki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Feasibility studies; Mobility limitation; Orthopedic equipment; Rehabilitation; Robotics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BERG BALANCE SCALE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; IMMOBILIZATION; INCLUSION BODY MYOSITIS; LIMB GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MYOPATHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; POLIOMYELITIS; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRAINING; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VELOCITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILITY LIMITATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 84878232007     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: 1532821X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2012.12.020     Document Type: Article

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