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A robotic treadmill system to mimic overground walking training with body weight support.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
|---|---|
| Author | Kim, Jongbum Oh, Seunghue Jo, Yongjin Moon, James Hyungsup Kim, Jonghyun |
| Copyright Year | 2023 |
| Abstract | IntroductionBody weight support overground walking training (BWSOWT) is widely used in gait rehabilitation. However, existing systems require large workspace, complex structure, and substantial installation cost for the actuator, which make those systems inappropriate for the clinical environment. For wide clinical use, the proposed system is based on a self-paced treadmill, and uses an optimized body weight support with frame-based two-wire mechanism.MethodThe Interactive treadmill was used to mimic overground walking. We opted the conventional DC motors to partially unload the body weight and modified pelvic type harness to allow natural pelvic motion. The performance of the proposed system on the measurement of anterior/posterior position, force control, and pelvic motion was evaluated with 8 healthy subjects during walking training.ResultsWe verified that the proposed system was the cost/space-effective and showed the more accurate anterior/posterior position than motion sensor, comparable force control performance, and natural pelvic motion.DiscussionThe proposed system is cost/space effective, and able to mimic overground walking training with body weight support. In future work, we will improve the force control performance and optimize the training protocol for wide clinical use. |
| Page Count | 11 |
| Journal | Frontiers in Neurorobotics |
| Volume Number | 17 |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC10288878 |
| PubMed reference number | 37359910 |
| e-ISSN | 16625218 |
| DOI | 10.3389/fnbot.2023.1089377 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Frontiers Media S.A. |
| Publisher Date | 2023-06-09 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. Copyright © 2023 Kim, Oh, Jo, Moon and Kim. |
| Subject Keyword | body weight support overground walking training treadmill wire mechanism gait rehabilitation |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Artificial Intelligence Biomedical Engineering |
