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Training Response to Longitudinal Powered Exoskeleton Training for SCI

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Wearable Robotics: Challenges and Trends

Part of the book series: Biosystems & Biorobotics ((BIOSYSROB,volume 16))

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The goal of this research is to assess how powered exoskeleton-training for 5 h per week over 20 weeks can change gait parameters to increase walking speed for chronic SCI. Gait parameters include Center of Mass (CoM) excursions, walking velocity, initial double stance time (IDS), single stance time (SS), terminal double stance time (TDS), swing time (SW), and spatial parameters such as step length, step width and stride length. Exoskeleton training had a significant effect on walking velocity due to specific temporal spatial gait parameters (IDS, TDS, Step and Stride Length) and increased stability (CoM).

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  1. Kessler Foundation, West Orange, NJ, USA

    A. Ramanujam, E. Garbarini, J. Augustine, S. Canton, P. Barrance & G. F. Forrest

  2. National Center of Excellence for the Medical Consequences of SCI, James J. Peters VAMC, Bronx, NY, 10468, USA

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  1. Spanish National Research Council, Cajal Institute Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain

    José González-Vargas

  2. Spanish National Research Council, Cajal Institute Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain

    Jaime Ibáñez

  3. Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, Houston, Texas, USA

    Jose L. Contreras-Vidal

  4. University of Twente , Enschede, The Netherlands

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  5. Spanish National Research Council, Cajal Institute Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain

    José Luis Pons

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Ramanujam, A. et al. (2017). Training Response to Longitudinal Powered Exoskeleton Training for SCI. In: González-Vargas, J., Ibáñez, J., Contreras-Vidal, J., van der Kooij, H., Pons, J. (eds) Wearable Robotics: Challenges and Trends. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46532-6_59

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