An Overview on Ankle Rehabilitation Devices

Abstract:

People with walking disorders, due accidents or stroke, can be treated to regain their mobility. Conventional therapy is laborious and time consuming. Therefore a new tendency was born, to facilitate the rehabilitation and to reduce time spent on the machines. Rehabilitation robotics is a field in continuous expansion and recently novel mechanisms have been designed to help humans to regain their mobility. In this paper a short overview of ankle recovery systems is presented.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1036)
• Pages: 781-786
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1036.781
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Cristina Magda Racu Cazacu, Ioan Doroftei*
• Keywords: Ankle Rehabilitation, Recovery System, Robot

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