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Fausto Antonio Panizzolo, Eugenio Annese, Antonio Paoli and Giuseppe Marcolin
Difficulty walking in older adults affects their independence and ability to execute daily tasks in an autonomous way, which can result in a negative effect to their health status and risk of morbidity. Very often, reduced walking speed in older adults i...
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Betsy D. M. Chaparro-Rico, Daniele Cafolla, Marco Ceccarelli and Eduardo Castillo-Castaneda
Patients with neurological or orthopedic lesions require assistance during therapies with repetitive movements. NURSE (cassiNo-qUeretaro uppeR-limb aSsistive dEvice) is an arm movement aid device for both right- and left-upper limb. The device has a big ...
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Tetsuro Miyazaki, Toshihiro Tagami, Daisuke Morisaki, Ryoken Miyazaki, Toshihiro Kawase, Takahiro Kanno and Kenji Kawashima
Power assistive devices have been developed in recent years. To detect the wearer?s motion, conventional devices require users to wear sensors. However, wearing many sensors increases the wearing time, and usability of the device will become worse. We de...
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Masataka Yamamoto, Yusuke Kishishita, Koji Shimatani and Yuichi Kurita
Decreased ability to control posture is correlated with the risk of falls among older individuals. In particular, reactive postural control ability response to even small perturbations is important for fall prevention of older individuals. The current st...
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