ArticleAnnals of biomedical engineering2021
Does Ankle Exoskeleton Assistance Impair Stability During Walking in Individuals with Cerebral Palsy?
Article in Annals of biomedical engineering, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Advancing Gait Rehabilitation: A Systematic Review of Robotic Exoskeletons for Cerebral Palsy.Wearable technologies · 2025Review
- How Adaptive Ankle Exoskeleton Assistance Affects Stability During Perturbed and Unperturbed Walking in the Elderly.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2023Article
- Simulating the effect of ankle plantarflexion and inversion-eversion exoskeleton torques on center of mass kinematics during walking.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
- Advances on mechanical designs for assistive ankle-foot orthoses.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Review
- Ankle strategy assistance to improve gait stability using controllers based on in-shoe center of pressure in 2 degree-of-freedom powered ankle-foot orthoses: a clinical study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2022Article
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Abstract
Lower-limb exoskeletons have the potential to improve mobility in individuals with movement disabilities, such as cerebral palsy (CP). The goal of this study was to assess the impact of plantar-flexor assistance from an untethered ankle exoskeleton on dynamic stability during unperturbed and perturbed walking in individuals with CP. Seven participants with CP (Gross Motor Function Classification System levels I-III, ages 6-31 years) completed a treadmill walking protocol under their normal walking condition and while wearing an ankle exoskeleton that provided adaptive plantar-flexor assistance. Pseudo-randomized treadmill perturbations were delivered during stance phase by accelerating one side of a split-belt treadmill. Treadmill perturbations resulted in a significant decrease in anteroposterior minimum margin-of-stability (- 32.1%, p < 0.001), and a significant increase in contralateral limb step length (8.1%, p = 0.005), integrated soleus activity during unassisted walking (23.4%, p = 0.02), and peak biological ankle moment (9.6%, p = 0.03) during stance phase. Plantar-flexor assistance did not significantly alter margin-of-stability, step length, soleus activity, or ankle moments during both unperturbed and perturbed walking. These results indicate that adaptive plantar-flexor assistance from an untethered ankle exoskeleton does not significantly alter dynamic stability maintenance during unperturbed and perturbed walking for individuals with CP, supporting future research in real-world environments.
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