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Background Walking disabilities negatively affect inclusion in society and quality of life and increase the risk for secondary complications. It has been shown that external feedback applied by therapists and/or robotic training devices enables individuals with gait abnormalities to consciously normalize their gait pattern. However, little is known about the effects of a technically-assisted over...
We developed a system combining haptic tensile forces in the direction of locomotion in a virtual environment to investigate its effects on steady-state walking in elderly post-stroke and age-matched controls. Chronic stroke participants (n=6) and healthy age-matched controls (n=6) increased walking velocity by as much as 22% in the stroke group and 18.5% in the control group. This was accompanied...
We developed a system to investigate the effects of haptic tensile forces in the direction of locomotion in a virtual environment. Pilot results show improvement in gait velocity and symmetry when forces (5-20N) are applied to the hand. Healthy participants (n=5) increased walking velocity by 6–17% and a chronic stroke participant increased by 15%. When a transient perturbation increased force (10N...
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