Just the title alone sounds like this actually hinders true recovery. So if you get this, ask your doctor to clarify EXACTLY what needs to be done to strengthen those hip and ankle muscles. No response from your doctor? Call the president and ask when competent doctors will be hired. I take no prisoners in my quest to solve stroke. Incompetency can't be allowed to stand in the way of 100% recovery solutions. This sounds exactly like AFOs actually preventing dorsiflexion from ever coming back. They get you walking faster but at the cost of true recovery.
Known for seven years, so that gives you an idea how fucking incompetent your doctors and stroke hospital are. I suggest firings start at the top with the board of directors.
Powered Hip Exoskeletons Can Reduce the User's Hip and Ankle Muscle Activations During Walking
2013, IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
T. Lenzi, Student Member IEEE, M.C. Carrozza, Member, IEEE, and S.K. Agrawal Member, IEEE
Abstract—
In this paper, we study the human locomotor adaptation to the action of a powered exoskeleton providing assistive torque at the user’s hip during walking. To this end, we propose a controller that provides the user’s hip with a fraction of the nominal torque profile, adapted to the specific gait features of the user from Winter’s reference data [34]. The assistive controller has been implemented on the ALEX II exoskeleton and tested on ten healthy subjects. Experimental results show that when assisted by the exoskeleton, users can reduce the muscle effort compared to free walking. Despite providing assistance only to the hip joint, both hip and ankle muscles significantly reduced their activation, indicating a clear tradeoff between hip and ankle strategy to propel walking.
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