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Dorota Rózanska-Perlinska, Jaroslaw Jaszczur-Nowicki, Dariusz Kruczkowski and Joanna Magdalena Bukowska
Background: Dental malocclusion is an increasingly frequent stomatognathic disorder in children and adolescents nowadays. The purpose of this study was to confirm or deny the correlations between body posture and malocclusion. Methods: In the study, gait...
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Yi Liu, Honglei An, Hongxu Ma and Qing Wei
Intelligent lower-limb prostheses aims to make amputees walk more comfortably and symmetrically which requires the dynamic altering of gait parameters such as walking speed. Some solutions have been proposed such as direct integration and machine learnin...
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Nedunchelien Gurusamy, Irraivan Elamvazuthi, Norashikin Yahya, Steven Su and Bao-Huy Truong
The output of this research by means of energy harvesting through biomechanical motion has the potential to be applied to charging portable devices.
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Cristian Copilusi, Sorin Dumitru, Ionut Geonea, Leonard Gherghe Ciurezu and Nicolae Dumitru
This paper addresses a design for an exoskeleton used for human locomotion purposes in cases of people with neuromotor disorders. The reason for starting this research was given by the development of some intelligent systems for walking recovery involved...
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Hye Kyeong Lee, Sung Min Kim and Hong Seok Lim
Loss of lumbar lordosis in flatback patients leads to changes in the walking mechanism like knee flexion. Such variations in flatback patients are predicted to alter the characteristics of total knee replacement (TKR) contact, so their TKR will show diff...
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Karla Rincon-Martinez, Isaac Chairez and Wen-Yu Liu
The aim of this study is to develop an adaptive automatic control method for solving the trajectory tracking problem for a biped robotic device (BRD) and taking into account that each articulation is mobilized by a linear actuator. Each extremity of the ...
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Leandra Bauer, Manuel Kistler, Arnd Steinbrück, Katrin Ingr, Peter E. Müller, Volkmar Jansson, Christian Schröder and Matthias Woiczinski
Wear is an important factor in the long-term success of total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Therefore, wear testing methods have become standard in implant research and development. In the EU, these are based on two simulation concepts, which are defined in s...
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Carlo Albino Frigo, Christian Wyss and Reinald Brunner
The role of rectus femoris (RF) muscle during walking was analyzed through musculoskeletal models to understand the effects of muscle weakness and hyperactivity. Such understanding is fundamental when dealing with pathological gait, but the contribution ...
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Van-Thuc Tran, Kota Sasaki and Shin-ichiroh Yamamoto
In recent years, the Body Weight Support system has been considered to be an indispensable component in gait training systems, which be used to improve the ability to walk of hemiplegic, stroke, and spinal cord injury patients. Previous studies investiga...
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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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