Open AccessEffects of plantar flexion resistive moment generated by an ankle-foot orthosis with an oil damper on the gait of stroke patients
Author(s) -
Sumiko Yamamoto,
Naoki Tomokiyo,
Tadashi Yasui,
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
prosthetics and orthotics international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.729
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1746-1553
pISSN - 0309-3646
DOI - 10.1177/0309364612460266
Subject(s) - ankle , gait , physical medicine and rehabilitation , resistive touchscreen , moment (physics) , foot (prosody) , stroke (engine) , medicine , physical therapy , computer science , physics , surgery , linguistics , philosophy , classical mechanics , computer vision , thermodynamics
An ankle-foot orthosis with an oil damper was previously developed to assist the first rocker function during gait, but the effects of the amount of resistive moment generated on gait have not been clarified.