Influence of Body Weight Support Systems on the Abnormal Gait Kinematic
Applied Sciences, 2020 In recent years, the Body Weight Support system has been considered to be an indispensable component in gait training systems, which be used to improve the ability to walk of hemiplegic, stroke, and spinal cord injury patients.
Van-Thuc Tran +2 more
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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 +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 +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 +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
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Treadmill walking with body weight support [PDF]
Gait & Posture, 2012 Background: Rehabilitating walking in patients post-stroke with safe, task-specific, intensive training of sufficient duration, can be challenging. Body weight supported treadmill training (BWSTT) has been proposed as an effective method to meet these ...
Aaslund, Mona Kristin
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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 MedicineIntroductionThe 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 +7 more
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Stride length–velocity relationship during running with body weight support
Journal of Sport and Health Science, 2015 Background: Lower body positive pressure (LBPP) treadmills can be used in rehabilitation programs and/or to supplement run mileage in healthy runners by reducing the effective body weight and impact associated with running.
John A. Mercer, Carmen Chona
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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 +2 more
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Mediolateral damping of an overhead body weight support system assists stability during treadmill walking [PDF]
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2020 Background Body weight support systems with three or more degrees of freedom (3-DoF) are permissive and safe environments that provide unloading and allow unrestricted movement in any direction.
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