this paper describes the design and kinematic analysis of a 5 DOF upper limb powered robotic exoskeleton for rehabilitation of the patients who survived stroke and the elderly who do not have enough strength to move their limbs freely. It was observed that the existing upper extremity exoskeletons were bulky and heavy which made them limited to applications and the complexity of the system incr...

Objective: HAL® robot suit is a new voluntary driven exoskeleton for the lower limbs. It has already been demonstrated to improve walking functions in spinal cord injury and stroke patients. So far, it is not known if HAL® training may be beneficial in patients with limb girdle muscular dystrophy, too. Design/methods: In this short report, HAL® exoskeleton assisted body-weight supported treadmi...

In this study, surface electromyography (EMG) signals of the Gastrocnemius, Tibialis anterior and Soleus muscles were recorded on various subject during their daily life activities such as walking and stair ascent and decent. The lowerlimb muscle activities have been studied to enable power-assist robotic systems to estimate human lower-limb muscle activities based on muscle electromyographic (...

In this prospective descriptive study, all patients with acute lower limb ischemia who presented to Shohada Tajrish Hospital (STH) between July 200 1 and July 2003 were analyzed and followed for 6 months. The total population of 109 patients, with no significant difference in sexual distribution had a mean age of 64± 16 years. 23% had AF and 31 % had a history of MI, 'but in the ECG of 30%,...

MINDWALKER [1] is an EC FP7 funded project which aims at researching, designing and prototyping technologies for the seamless control of a lower limbs exoskeleton, relying on BNCI (Brain Neural Computer Interfaces) technologies. It promotes a non-invasive approach minimizing the cognitive load of the user for controlling the system. This paper first introduces the MINDWALKER projects, its chall...