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IEEE Access, 2021 Muscle weakness owing to stroke, spinal cord injuries, or aging can make a person’s life sedentary, temporarily as well as permanently. Such persons need to be motivated to break their sedentary postures and attempt independent motion.
Asitha L. Kulasekera +4 more
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Usability of an exosuit in domestic and community environments
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2022 Abstract Background Exosuits have been shown to reduce metabolic cost of walking and to increase gait performance when used in clinical environment. Currently, these devices are transitioning to private use to facilitate independent training at home and in the community. However, their acceptance in unsupervised settings
Basla, Chiara +5 more
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A method to quantify the reduction of back and hip muscle fatigue of lift-support exoskeletons
Wearable Technologies, 2023 Cumulative back muscle fatigue plays a role in the occurrence of low-back injuries in occupations that require repetitive lifting of heavy loads and working in forward leaning postures.
Rachel M. van Sluijs +5 more
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IEEE Access, 2022 Despite more than thirty-five years of research on wearable technologies to assist the upper-limb and a multitude of promising preliminary results, the goal of restoring pre-impairment quality of life of people with physical disabilities has not been ...
Tommaso Proietti +3 more
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Can back exosuits simultaneously increase lifting endurance and reduce musculoskeletal disorder risk? [PDF]
Wearable TechnolThe objectives of this case series study were to test whether an elastic back exosuit could increase a wearer’s endurance when lifting heavy objects and to assess whether lifting more cancels out the exosuit’s risk reduction benefits.
Rodzak KM +5 more
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Soft wearable assistive robotics: exosuits and supernumerary limbs [PDF]
, 2018 International audienceThe intrinsic soft nature of compliant supernumerary limbs and exosuits makes them appealing candidates for assisting human movements, with potential applications in healthcare, human augmentation and logistics.
Khanh, Dinh, Binh +34 more
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Buildings, 2023 The labor-intensive nature of the construction industry requires workers to frequently perform physically demanding manual work, thereby exposing them to the risk of musculoskeletal injury (approximately 31.2 cases per 10,000 full-time equivalent workers)
Sean T. Bennett +7 more
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Fabric-Based, Pneumatic Exosuit for Lower-Back Support in Manual-Handling Tasks
Actuators, 2023 Lower-back pain (LBP) is a major cause of occupational disability and morbidity. This study investigates the effectiveness of a fabric-based pneumatic exosuit in reducing discomfort and lumbar muscle activation in healthy individuals who are performing ...
Amit Nirmal Cuttilan +2 more
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Sensors, 2022 Industrial workplaces expose workers to a high risk of injuries such as Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSDs). Exoskeletons are wearable robotic technologies that can be used to reduce the loads exerted on the body’s joints and reduce the ...
Ali Golabchi +2 more
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Actuators, 2023 Although exosuits have several advantages compared to exoskeleton type of wearable robots, they have limitations, such as bulkiness and low control performance.
Jaeha Yang +7 more
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