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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON REHABILITATION ENGINEERING
卷 8, 期 4, 页码 506-513出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/86.895954
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Biomechanics; body weight support; instrumentation; locomotion training; reduced gravity
The paper presents Walking Assistance and Rehabilitation Device (WARD), a system for walking rehabilitation devised to relieve the patient of his/her body weight of a constant and prescribed amount by externally supporting the subject at the upper trunk and pelvis level by means of a harness. The system is based on a pneumatic actuator that has proved to be effective at maintaining a constant relief force. The constancy of this force that should be maintained even under high body weight support (BWS) conditions (70-80% of body weight) seems to be important for a correct motor pattern. A law has been identified that may be useful to adjust walking speed as a function of the prescribed BWS, WARD is simple to construct, practical to use, and has been characterized on healthy subjects.
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