A Passive Exoskeleton Can Push Your Life Up: Application on Multiple Sclerosis Patients

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Di Russo, Francesco ^a,b   Berchicci, Marika ^a   Perri, Rinaldo Livio ^a   Ripani, Francesca Romana ^c   Ripani, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXOSKELETON (REHABILITATION); FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN BODY POSTURIZER; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOVEMENT RELATED CORTICAL POTENTIAL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROPRIOCEPTION; WALKING;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTURE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROPRIOCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; WALKING;

EID: 84886416621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077348     Document Type: Article

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