Hybrid gait training with an overground robot for people with incomplete spinal cord injury: A pilot study

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  del Ama, Antonio J ^a   Gil Agudo, Ángel ^a   Pons, José L ^b   Moreno, Juan C ^b  

^a National Hospital for Spinal Cord Injury   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gait; Hybrid exoskeleton; Lower extremity; Motor recovery; Muscular electrical stimulation; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BALANCE DISORDER; BIOMECHANICS; CASE REPORT; EXERCISE TEST; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; JOINT LIMITATION; KINEMATICS; KNEE INSTABILITY; LEG MUSCLE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCLE EXAMINATION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROPROSTHESIS; OVERGROUND GAIT THERAPY; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PILOT STUDY; ROBOTIC EXOSKELETON; ROBOTICS; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TREATMENT DURATION; WALKING;

EID: 84901362347     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00298     Document Type: Article

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