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Wheelchairs are the most widely used assistive device to aid activities of daily living (ADL) for disabled people. However, manual pushing of a wheelchair frequently leads to overuse of upper extremities causing shoulder pain and carpal tunnel syndrome. The purpose of this study was to test a novel method of estimating temporal parameters of wheelchair propulsion using inertial sensors. In this paper,...
The cycling wheelchair "Profhand" developed by our research group in Japan has been found to be useful in rehabilitation of motor function of lower limbs. The cycling wheelchair can also be applied to rehabilitation of paraplegic subjects by controlling lower limbs with FES. In this paper, FES control without stimulation to the gluteus maximus and that with stimulation to the tibialis anterior...
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