Opportunities and challenges in the development of exoskeletons for locomotor assistance

C Siviy, A Polhemus, L Delgado-Ortiz, G Brittain… - NPJ digital …, 2021 - nature.com
Physical mobility is essential to health, and patients often rate it as a high-priority clinical
outcome. Digital mobility outcomes (DMOs), such as real-world gait speed or step count …

Familiarization with treadmill walking: How much is enough?

C Meyer, T Killeen, CS Easthope, A Curt, M Bolliger… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Treadmill-based gait analysis is widely used to investigate walking pathologies and quantify
treatment effects on locomotion. Differential sensorimotor conditions during overground vs …

Wearables and deep learning classify fall risk from gait in multiple sclerosis

BM Meyer, LJ Tulipani, RD Gurchiek… - IEEE journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Falls are a significant problem for persons with multiple sclerosis (PwMS). Yet fall prevention
interventions are not often prescribed until after a fall has been reported to a healthcare …

Emerging portable technologies for gait analysis in neurological disorders

C Salchow-Hömmen, M Skrobot… - Frontiers in Human …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The understanding of locomotion in neurological disorders requires technologies for
quantitative gait analysis. Numerous modalities are available today to objectively capture …

Artificial neural network-based activities classification, gait phase estimation, and prediction

S Yu, J Yang, TH Huang, J Zhu, CJ Visco… - Annals of biomedical …, 2023 - Springer
Gait patterns are critical to health monitoring, gait impairment assessment, and wearable
device control. Unrhythmic gait pattern detection under community-based conditions is a …

Immediate effects of transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation on motor function in chronic, sensorimotor incomplete spinal cord injury

C Meyer, US Hofstoetter, M Hubli, RH Hassani… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Deficient ankle control after incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) often accentuates walking
impairments. Transcutaneous electrical spinal cord stimulation (tSCS) has been shown to …

Gait pattern in people with multiple sclerosis: a systematic review

M Coca-Tapia, A Cuesta-Gómez, F Molina-Rueda… - Diagnostics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The aim of the present systematic review was to describe the gait pattern in people with
multiple sclerosis (MS) by compiling the main findings obtained from studies using three …

Wearable inertial sensors provide reliable biomarkers of disease severity in multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

A Vienne-Jumeau, F Quijoux, PP Vidal… - Annals of physical and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Gait impairment is a hallmark of multiple sclerosis (MS). InertiaLocoGraphy, the
quantification of gait with inertial measurement units (IMUs), has been found useful to detect …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of disability status in persons with multiple sclerosis by lower limb neuromuscular function–Emphasis on rate of force development

L Taul-Madsen, M Riemenschneider… - Multiple Sclerosis and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Neurodegeneration is an inevitable consequence of multiple sclerosis (MS)
leading to impaired neuromuscular function, especially of the lower extremities. Whilst …