ArticleIEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering2023
Functional Resistance Training With Viscous and Elastic Devices: Does Resistance Type Acutely Affect Knee Function?
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- Low-cost Devices for Stroke Rehabilitation: A Review of Approaches, Designs, and Evidence.Restorative neurology and neuroscience · 2026Review
- Overhead support systems differentially affect gait analysis of overground and treadmill walking.Gait & posture · 2025Article
- Establishing thresholds for swing transparency at the knee during gait to inform exoskeleton design.PloS one · 2025Article
- Design and Validation of a Pancake Style Planetary Gearbox for an Eddy Current-Based Wearable Gait Training Robot.IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2025Article
- Shaping corticospinal pathways in virtual reality: effects of task complexity and sensory feedback during mirror therapy in neurologically intact individuals.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Functional resistance training during walking: do biomechanical and neural effects differ based on targeted joints?IEEE transactions on medical robotics and bionics · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveFunctional resistance training (FRT) during walking is an emerging approach for rehabilitating individuals with neuromuscular or orthopedic injuries. During FRT, wearable exoskeleton/braces can target resistance to a weakened leg joint; however, the resistive properties of the training depend on the type of resistive elements used in the device. Hence, this study was designed to examine how the biomechanical and neural effects of functional resistance training differ with viscous and elastic resistances during both treadmill and overground walking.
methodsFourteen able-bodied individuals were trained on two separate sessions with two devices that provided resistance to the knee (viscous and elastic) while walking on a treadmill. We measured gait biomechanics and muscle activation during training, as well as kinematic aftereffects and changes in peripheral fatigue and neural excitability after training.
resultsWe found the resistance type differentially altered gait kinetics during training-elastic resistance increased knee extension during stance while viscous resistance primarily affected swing. Also, viscous resistance increased power generation while elastic resistance could increase power absorption. Both devices resulted in significant kinematic and neural aftereffects. However, overground kinematic aftereffects and neural excitability did not differ between devices.
conclusionDifferent resistance types can be used to alter gait biomechanics during training. While there were no resistance-specific changes in acute neural adaptation following training, it is still possible that prolonged and repeated training could produce differential effects. SIGNIFICANCE: Resistance type alters the kinetics of functional resistance training. Prolonged and repeated training sessions on patients will be needed to further measure the effects of these devices.
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