Clinical experience of functional electrical stimulation in complete paraplegia

Functional Electrical Stimulation in Paraplegia

Standing stability of the medial linkage KAFOs using functional electrical stimulation in complete paraplegia

A medial linkage device called Primewalk was developed by Saitoh et al. to connect two KneeAnkle-Foot Orthoses (KAFOs). This device enabled to improve for paraplegic gait not only using orthosis but addition to functional electrical stimulation (FES). The purpose is to investigate the postural stability with the Primewalk device liked KAFOs in a paraplegic patient using FES. The complete T8 par...

Model simulation for restoration of trunk in complete paraplegia by functional electrical stimulation

Purpose: To design a musculo-skeletal dynamic spine model with which we can perform FES effectively as well as the simulation of spinal motion and analysis of stress distribution to the vertebra. Method: The skeletal model was designed from computed tomography (CT) data of a young male healthy volunteer. The muscles, discs and ligaments were attached to the skeletal model correctly as possible ...

Clinical experience of functional electrical stimulation for restoration of tetraplegic hand function

There are some Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) systems that restore upper limb functions in tetraplegia. Surface electrodes [1], percutaneous intramuscular electrodes [2] and totally implantable electrodes [3] are used for stimulation in these neuroprostheses. The FESMATE system, developed by the Sendai FES Projects in Japan, is a portable multi-channel FES system with percutaneous elec...

First Clinical Experience with BION Implants for Therapeutic Electrical Stimulation.

The objective of this study was to assess the usability and safety of BION injectable neuromuscular microstimulators for therapeutic electrical stimulation (TES) to treat two conditions involving disuse atrophy: poststroke shoulder subluxation in hemiplegic subjects and knee osteoarthritis. Clinicians were provided with PC-based software to track implants and to design the exercise programs. Su...