Systematic review on wearable lower-limb exoskeletons for gait training in neuromuscular impairments

A Rodríguez-Fernández, J Lobo-Prat… - … of neuroengineering and …, 2021 - Springer
Gait disorders can reduce the quality of life for people with neuromuscular impairments.
Therefore, walking recovery is one of the main priorities for counteracting sedentary lifestyle …

Control strategies used in lower limb exoskeletons for gait rehabilitation after brain injury: a systematic review and analysis of clinical effectiveness

J de Miguel-Fernández, J Lobo-Prat, E Prinsen… - … of neuroengineering and …, 2023 - Springer
Background In the past decade, there has been substantial progress in the development of
robotic controllers that specify how lower-limb exoskeletons should interact with brain …

Coordination between partial robotic exoskeletons and human gait: A comprehensive review on control strategies

JS Lora-Millan, JC Moreno, E Rocon - Frontiers in Bioengineering …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Lower-limb robotic exoskeletons have become powerful tools to assist or rehabilitate the gait
of subjects with impaired walking, even when they are designed to act only partially over the …

Are muscle synergies useful for stroke rehabilitation?

YNG Hong, AN Ballekere, BJ Fregly, J Roh - Current Opinion in Biomedical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Modular organization of human movement has been studied for several decades using
muscle synergy analysis. Whether the reduction in control dimensionality calculated by …

Current concepts of neural stem/progenitor cell therapy for chronic spinal cord injury

H Suzuki, Y Imajo, M Funaba, N Nishida… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition that results in major neurological
deficits and social burden. It continues to be managed symptomatically, and no real …

Changes in leg cycling muscle synergies after training augmented by functional electrical stimulation in subacute stroke survivors: a pilot study

E Ambrosini, M Parati, E Peri, C De Marchis… - … of neuroengineering and …, 2020 - Springer
Background Muscle synergies analysis can provide a deep understanding of motor
impairment after stroke and of changes after rehabilitation. In this study, the neuro …

Subject-specific EEG channel selection using non-negative matrix factorization for lower-limb motor imagery recognition

D Gurve, D Delisle-Rodriguez… - Journal of Neural …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. This study aims to propose and validate a subject-specific approach to recognize
two different cognitive neural states (relax and pedaling motor imagery (MI)) by selecting the …

Robotic exoskeleton embodiment in post-stroke hemiparetic patients: an experimental study about the integration of the assistance provided by the REFLEX knee …

JS Lora-Millan, FJ Sanchez-Cuesta, JP Romero… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Hemiparetic gait is the most common motor-disorder after stroke and, in spite of
rehabilitation efforts, it is persistent in 50% of community dwelling stroke-survivors. Robotic …

System based on subject-specific bands to recognize pedaling motor imagery: towards a BCI for lower-limb rehabilitation

D Delisle-Rodriguez, V Cardoso, D Gurve… - Journal of neural …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. The aim of this study is to propose a recognition system of pedaling motor
imagery for lower-limb rehabilitation, which uses unsupervised methods to improve the …

Human-in-the-loop control for agora unilateral lower-limb exoskeleton

LJA Mayag, M Múnera, CA Cifuentes - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2022 - Springer
Exoskeletons aim to provide required torques in a patient's lower limbs generating
anatomical patterns. In this sense, this work presents an AGoRA lower limb exoskeleton …