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  • A multi-purpose rehabilitation frame : a novel apparatus for balance training during standing of neurologically impaired individuals
    Matjačić, Zlatko ; Johannesen, Inger Lauge ; Sinkjær, Thomas
    We present a novel mechanical apparatus, named Multi-purpose Rehabilitation Frame (MFR), and methods for balance training during standing of neurologically impaired individuals. The device has two ... degrees of freedom (DOF), which allow for constrained movement of both lower limbs and pelvis in the sagittal and frontal planes. The MFR aims at improving balancing in impaired individuals by providing a stiffness support and action of perturbations, which facilitate development of alternative balancing strategies. The level of stiffness support and strength of perturbations, which are generated by means of two hydraulic servo-controlled actuators, can be selected according to current balancing abilities of an impaired individual. We further present preliminary results of nine days of balance training in two paraplegic and two incomplete tetraplegic subjects standing in the MRF. All subjects improved their balancing abilities as measured from the level of needed supporting stiffness provided by the MRF.
    Vir: Journal of rehabilitation research and development. - ISSN 0748-7711 (Vol. 37, no. 6, 2000, str. 681-691)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2000
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 15796775

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