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The Effect of Surface Inclination to Knee Joint Contact Force: A Pilot Study
Compressive loading at knee during walking on slope can caused the initiation and progression of osteoarthritis due to cartilage degeneration...
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Wear mechanism and debris analysis of PEEK as an alternative to CoCrMo in the femoral component of total knee replacement
The polyetheretherketone (PEEK)-highly cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE), all-polymer knee prosthesis has excellent prospects for replacing the...
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Mechanical design and control of a novel variable impedance actuator (VIA) for knee joint of a rehabilitation exoskeleton
In the presented paper, a novel mechanical design is suggested to utilize in the variable impedance actuators called VSAPLM. This mechanism is...
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Novel Design of Selective Action Knee Assistive Device
Problems such as knee osteoarthritis and weakening of leg muscles lead to difficulty and pain in walking for some people in their old age. This paper...
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Design of a Minimally Actuated Lower Limb Exoskeleton with Mechanical Joint Coupling
Powered lower limb exoskeletons have traditionally used four or more powered joints to provide ambulation assistance for individuals with spinal cord...
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A Real-Time Assistance Control Strategy for Active Knee Exoskeleton
Climbing stairs under weight-bearing conditions increases the risk of firefighters’ knee pain and even synovial damage. The active knee exoskeleton...
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Muscle and joint mechanics during maximum force biting following total temporomandibular joint replacement surgery
Total temporomandibular joint replacement (TMJR) surgery is the established treatment for severe temporomandibular joint disorders. While TMJR...
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Stretchable piezoresistive vs. capacitive silicon sensors integrated into ski base layer pants for measuring the knee flexion angle
The knee is the most often injured body part in alpine skiing. The loads on different structures of the knee, and thus the risk of injury, is...
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How Does Knee Brace Modelling Influence the Prediction of Medial and Lateral Contact Forces?
Valgus knee orthoses are recommended to improve the quality of life of osteoarthritic patients and to postpone the arthroplasty. An innovative...
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A Bond Graph Model for the Estimation of Torque Requirements at the Knee Joint During Sit-to-Stand and Stand-to-Sit Motions
Sit-to-stand (SiTSt) and stand-to-sit (StTSi) are some of the frequent but crucial motions executed by the human body during daily life activities....
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Enhancing the Performance of Knee Beam–Column Joint Using Hybrid Fibers Reinforced Concrete
The knee beam–column joint is a critical location in a Reinforced Concrete (RC) structure particularly when subjected to earthquake vibrations. The...
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Human-Mechanical Biomechanical Analysis of a Novel Knee Exoskeleton Robot for Rehabilitation Training
Exoskeleton robots are a new kind of wearable assistive and rehabilitation training equipment, with user adaptability and assistive effectiveness...
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Joint Coordination to Maintain Postural Balance Differs Between Preferred and Non-preferred Lower Limbs
The maintenance of postural balance depends on coordinated actions between the joints on both sides of the body. Although biomechanical modeling...
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Effects of Added Mass on Muscle Activity and Joint Movement During Walking
Added mass provided irregular interference towards human movement and shifted the force generated by lower limb muscles. However, the association...
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Design and Control of a Quasi-direct Drive Actuated Knee Exoskeleton
This paper describes the design and control of a portable and lightweight knee exoskeleton for people with knee dysfunction. The knee exoskeleton is...
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An Improved Design of Knee Orthosis Using Self-Adaptive Bonobo Optimizer (SaBO)
In medical sector, the necessity of develo** orthotic devices has been felt, nowadays, due to the increasing number of patients with stroke or...
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Estimation of Knee Joint Motion Acceleration Using Mechanomyography Signals
It has become a research hotspot to provide exercise assistance and rehabilitation training for the weakened limbs’ elderly or disabled by wearable...
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Intelligent Fractional-Order Active Fault-Tolerant Sliding Mode Controller for a Knee Joint Orthosis
Over the last few decades, the appearance of robot applications has been continuously increasing in rehabilitation treatment due to the increasing...
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Efficiency of deep neural networks for joint angle modeling in digital gait assessment
Reliability and user compliance of the applied sensor system are two key issues of digital healthcare and biomedical informatics. For gait assessment...
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Optimization Investigations on Total Knee Arthroplasty
A variety of concepts relating to optimization of TKA are covered in the research literature; however this coverage is extremely limited from a...