Opportunities and challenges in the development of exoskeletons for locomotor assistance

C Siviy, DR Louie, JJ Eng - Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation, 2016 - Springer
Powered robotic exoskeletons are a potential intervention for gait rehabilitation in stroke to
enable repetitive walking practice to maximize neural recovery. As this is a relatively new …

Gait training after spinal cord injury: safety, feasibility and gait function following 8 weeks of training with the exoskeletons from Ekso Bionics

C Bach Baunsgaard, U Vig Nissen, A Katrin Brust… - Spinal cord, 2018 - nature.com
Study design Prospective quasi-experimental study, pre-and post-design. Objectives Assess
safety, feasibility, training characteristics and changes in gait function for persons with spinal …

Powered exoskeletons for walking assistance in persons with central nervous system injuries: a narrative review

A Esquenazi, M Talaty, A Jayaraman - PM&R, 2017 - Elsevier
Individuals with central nervous system injuries are a large and apparently rapidly
expanding population—as suggested by 2013 statistics from the American Heart …

Powered exoskeletons for bipedal locomotion after spinal cord injury

JL Contreras-Vidal, NA Bhagat, J Brantley… - Journal of neural …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Powered exoskeletons promise to increase the quality of life of people with lower-
body paralysis or weakened legs by assisting or restoring legged mobility while providing …

Risk management and regulations for lower limb medical exoskeletons: a review

Y He, D Eguren, TP Luu… - … Devices: Evidence and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Gait disability is a major health care problem worldwide. Powered exoskeletons have
recently emerged as devices that can enable users with gait disabilities to ambulate in an …

Gait speed using powered robotic exoskeletons after spinal cord injury: a systematic review and correlational study

DR Louie, JJ Eng, T Lam… - … of neuroengineering and …, 2015 - Springer
Powered robotic exoskeletons are an emerging technology of wearable orthoses that can be
used as an assistive device to enable non-ambulatory individuals with spinal cord injury …