ArticleJournal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation2023
Effects of a soft robotic exosuit on the quality and speed of overground walking depends on walking ability after stroke.
Article in Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07218094 (Neuromechanical Mechanisms of Exosuit-assisted Gait Rehabilitation After Stroke), which is not on this map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Neuromechanical Mechanisms of Exosuit-assisted Gait Rehabilitation After Stroke
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Efficacy of robot-assisted gait training on lower extremity function in subacute stroke patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2024Pooled it
- Progress and perspectives in soft robotics for surgery and rehabilitation.Journal of robotic surgery · 2026Review
- Portable hip exoskeleton improves walking economy for stroke survivors.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Feasibility of a new soft ankle exoskeleton on people with dropfoot post-stroke.Wearable technologies · 2026Article
- Effective assistance timing using characteristics of paretic ground reaction force in ankle robotic gait training for individuals with hemiparesis after stroke: a cross-sectional study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Effects of Passive Hip Flexion and Extension Assistance in Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease and Healthy Individuals.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Autonomous Powered Ankle Exoskeleton Improves Foot Clearance and Knee Hyperextension After Stroke: A Case Study.IEEE transactions on medical robotics and bionics · 2025Article
- Bilateral hip exoskeleton assistance enables faster walking in individuals with chronic stroke-related gait impairments.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Review
- Efficacy of a Soft Robotic Exoskeleton to Improve Lower Limb Motor Function in Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy: A Single-Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Human-centered design of a novel soft exosuit for post-stroke gait rehabilitation.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2024Article
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14 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundSoft robotic exosuits can provide partial dorsiflexor and plantarflexor support in parallel with paretic muscles to improve poststroke walking capacity. Previous results indicate that baseline walking ability may impact a user's ability to leverage the exosuit assistance, while the effects on continuous walking, walking stability, and muscle slacking have not been evaluated. Here we evaluated the effects of a portable ankle exosuit during continuous comfortable overground walking in 19 individuals with chronic hemiparesis. We also compared two speed-based subgroups (threshold: 0.93 m/s) to address poststroke heterogeneity.
methodsWe refined a previously developed portable lightweight soft exosuit to support continuous overground walking. We compared five minutes of continuous walking in a laboratory with the exosuit to walking without the exosuit in terms of ground clearance, foot landing and propulsion, as well as the energy cost of transport, walking stability and plantarflexor muscle slacking.
resultsExosuit assistance was associated with improvements in the targeted gait impairments: 22% increase in ground clearance during swing, 5° increase in foot-to-floor angle at initial contact, and 22% increase in the center-of-mass propulsion during push-off. The improvements in propulsion and foot landing contributed to a 6.7% (0.04 m/s) increase in walking speed (R
conclusionsThe immediate restorative benefits of the exosuit presented here underline its promise for rehabilitative gait training in poststroke individuals.
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