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MIT-Skywalker: considerations on the Design of a Body Weight Support System [PDF]

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2017
Background To provide body weight support during walking and balance training, one can employ two distinct embodiments: support through a harness hanging from an overhead system or support through a saddle/seat type.
Rogério Sales Gonçalves, Hermano Igo Krebs   +1 more
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Simulation of human gait with body weight support: benchmarking models and unloading strategies [PDF]

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2020
Background Gait training with partial body weight support (BWS) has become an established rehabilitation technique. Besides passive unloading mechanisms such as springs or counterweights, also active systems that allow rendering constant or modulated ...
Salil Apte, Michiel Plooij, Heike Vallery   +2 more
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Development of split-force-controlled body weight support (SF-BWS) robot for gait rehabilitation [PDF]

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2023
This study introduces a body-weight-support (BWS) robot actuated by two pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs). Conventional BWS devices typically use springs or a single actuator, whereas our robot has a split force-controlled BWS (SF-BWS), in which two ...
Asuka Takai, Asuka Takai, Tatsuya Teramae, Tomoyuki Noda, Koji Ishihara, Jun-ichiro Furukawa, Jun-ichiro Furukawa, Hiroaki Fujimoto, Megumi Hatakenaka, Nobukazu Fujita, Akihiro Jino, Yuichi Hiramatsu, Ichiro Miyai, Jun Morimoto, Jun Morimoto, Jun Morimoto   +15 more
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A robotic treadmill system to mimic overground walking training with body weight support [PDF]

Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2023
IntroductionBody weight support overground walking training (BWSOWT) is widely used in gait rehabilitation. However, existing systems require large workspace, complex structure, and substantial installation cost for the actuator, which make those systems
Jongbum Kim, Seunghue Oh, Yongjin Jo, James Hyungsup Moon, Jonghyun Kim   +4 more
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Dynamic Modeling and Simulation of a Body Weight Support System [PDF]

Journal of Healthcare Engineering, 2020
This paper proposes a body weight support (BWS) system with a series elastic actuator (SEA) to facilitate walking assistance and motor relearning during gait rehabilitation. This system comprises the following: a mobile platform that ensures movement of the system on the ground, a BWS mechanism with an SEA that is capable of providing the desired ...
Zhendong Song, Wei Chen, Wenbing Wang, Guoqing Zhang   +3 more
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Modeling and Control of an Underactuated System for Dynamic Body Weight Support

Applied Sciences, 2021
This article concerns the stability analysis of a control system for a dynamic body weight support system in a rehabilitation device for the re-education of human gait.
Grzegorz Gembalczyk, Piotr Gierlak, Slawomir Duda   +2 more
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Aging and partial body weight support affects gait variability [PDF]

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2008
Background Aging leads to increases in gait variability which may explain the large incidence of falls in the elderly. Body weight support training may be utilized to improve gait in the elderly and minimize falls.
Ehlers Julie L, Kurz Max J, Kyvelidou Anastasia, Stergiou Nicholas   +3 more
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Influence of a multidirectional overground body weight support system on walking-related tasks in typically developing children and adolescents [PDF]

Frontiers in Medicine
IntroductionThe RYSEN is a multidirectional body weight support system for overground gait rehabilitation. It provides vertical unloading and enables unrestricted overground walking while preventing falls.
Hubertus J. A. van Hedel, Hubertus J. A. van Hedel, Sophia Rhiel, Sophia Rhiel, Emanuel Frei-Zuercher, Emanuel Frei-Zuercher, Urs Keller, Urs Keller   +7 more
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Clinical indications and protocol considerations for selecting initial body weight support levels in gait rehabilitation: a systematic review [PDF]

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
Background Body weight support (BWS) training devices are frequently used to improve gait in individuals with neurological impairments, but guidance in selecting an appropriate level of BWS is limited. Here, we aim to describe the initial BWS levels used
Sanne Ettema, Geertje H. Pennink, Tom J.W. Buurke, Sina David, Coen A.M. van Bennekom, Han Houdijk   +5 more
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Control System Design of an Underactuated Dynamic Body Weight Support System Using Its Stability [PDF]

Sensors, 2021
This paper discusses the stability of systems controlling patient body weight support systems which are used in gait re-education. These devices belong to the class of underactuated mechanical systems.
Grzegorz Gembalczyk, Piotr Gierlak, Slawomir Duda   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources