Locomotion improvement using a hybrid assistive limb in recovery phase stroke patients: A randomized controlled pilot study

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2006-2012

  Watanabe, Hiroki ^a,b   Tanaka, Naoki ^b   Inuta, Tomonari ^b   Saitou, Hideyuki ^b   Yanagi, Hisako ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Tsukuba Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gait; Locomotion; Rehabilitation; Robotics; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL GAIT TRAINING; ENDURANCE; EXOSKELETON (REHABILITATION); FEMALE; FUGL MEYER ASSESSMENT OF LOWER EXTREMITY; FUNCTIONAL AMBULATION CATEGORY; GAIT; HUMAN; HYBRID ASSISTIVE LIMB; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PILOT STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE BATTERY; SPEECH THERAPY; STROKE PATIENT; TREATMENT REFUSAL; WALKING SPEED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; DEVICES; EXERCISE TEST; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; STROKE; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPENDENT AMBULATION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; PILOT PROJECTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; ROBOTICS; STROKE; WALKING;

EID: 84908283312     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: 1532821X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2014.07.002     Document Type: Article

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