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A pneumatic power harvesting ankle-foot orthosis to prevent foot-drop

BACKGROUND: A self-contained, self-controlled, pneumatic power harvesting ankle-foot orthosis (PhAFO) to manage foot-drop was developed and tested. Foot-drop is due to a disruption of the motor control pathway and may occur in numerous pathologies such as stroke, spinal cord injury, multiple scleros...

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Autores principales: Chin, Robin, Hsiao-Wecksler, Elizabeth T, Loth, Eric, Kogler, Géza, Manwaring, Scott D, Tyson, Serena N, Shorter, K Alex, Gilmer, Joel N
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19527526
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-0003-6-19