TY - GEN
T1 - Differentiating ability in users of the ReWalkTM powered exoskeleton
T2 - 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2013
AU - Talaty, Mukul
AU - Esquenazi, Alberto
AU - Briceno, Jorge E.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The ReWalkTM powered exoskeleton assists thoracic level motor complete spinal cord injury patients who are paralyzed to walk again with an independent, functional, upright, reciprocating gait. We completed an evaluation of twelve such individuals with promising results. All subjects met basic criteria to be able to use the ReWalkTM - including items such as sufficient bone mineral density, leg passive range of motion, strength, body size and weight limits. All subjects received approximately the same number of training sessions. However there was a wide distribution in walking ability. Walking velocities ranged from under 0.1m/s to approximately 0.5m/s. This variability was not completely explained by injury level The remaining sources of that variability are not clear at present. This paper reports our preliminary analysis into how the walking kinematics differed across the subjects - as a first step to understand the possible contribution to the velocity range and determine if the subjects who did not walk as well could be taught to improve by mimicking the better walkers.
AB - The ReWalkTM powered exoskeleton assists thoracic level motor complete spinal cord injury patients who are paralyzed to walk again with an independent, functional, upright, reciprocating gait. We completed an evaluation of twelve such individuals with promising results. All subjects met basic criteria to be able to use the ReWalkTM - including items such as sufficient bone mineral density, leg passive range of motion, strength, body size and weight limits. All subjects received approximately the same number of training sessions. However there was a wide distribution in walking ability. Walking velocities ranged from under 0.1m/s to approximately 0.5m/s. This variability was not completely explained by injury level The remaining sources of that variability are not clear at present. This paper reports our preliminary analysis into how the walking kinematics differed across the subjects - as a first step to understand the possible contribution to the velocity range and determine if the subjects who did not walk as well could be taught to improve by mimicking the better walkers.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICORR.2013.6650469
DO - 10.1109/ICORR.2013.6650469
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 24187286
AN - SCOPUS:84891065173
SN - 9781467360241
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics
BT - 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2013
Y2 - 24 June 2013 through 26 June 2013
ER -