A preliminary assessment of legged mobility provided by a lower limb exoskeleton for persons with paraplegia

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 482-490

  Farris, Ryan J ^a,b   Quintero, Hugo A ^a,c   Murray, Spencer A ^d   Ha, Kevin H ^d   Hartigan, Clare ^e   Goldfarb, Michael ^d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PARKER HANNIFIN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Freedom Innovations   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SHEPHERD CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; assistive technology; knee ankle foot orthoses (KAFO); leg braces; legged mobility; lower limb exoskeleton; paraplegia; powered orthosis; spinal cord injury (SCI)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; HUMAN REHABILITATION ENGINEERING;

ASSESSMENT; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; LEG BRACES; LOWER LIMB; ORTHOSES; ORTHOSIS; PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL-CORD INJURY;

INSTRUMENTS;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; EXERCISE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LEG; LIMB PROSTHESIS; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PARAPLEGIA; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MOVEMENT; PARAPLEGIA; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84900444768     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2013.2268320     Document Type: Article

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