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Walking Faster and Farther With a Soft Robotic Exosuit: Implications for Post-Stroke Gait Assistance and Rehabilitation

Louis N. Awad, Pawel Kudzia, Dheepak Arumukhom Revi, Terry D. Ellis, Conor J. Walsh

IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology · 2020 · 102 citations · 26 references

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Abstract

Individuals post-stroke can leverage the paretic plantarflexor and dorsiflexor assistance provided by soft robotic exosuits to achieve clinically-meaningful increases in speed and distance.

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