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A sock for foot drop: A preliminary study on two chronic stroke patients

A sock for foot drop: A preliminary study on two chronic stroke patients

... 12 dwelling, chronic stroke patients with foot-drop. It should be viewed with caution as an alternative to AFOs, until further research becomes available. To strengthen the external validity of these ...

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A decision support system for electrode shaping in multi-pad FES foot drop correction

A decision support system for electrode shaping in multi-pad FES foot drop correction

... the foot for recording the twitch responses ...for foot drop with the control of DF and EV during the swing phase of the gait by two decoupled iterative learn- ing ...nerve. Foot move- ments ...

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Testing the Functionality of a Vibrotactile Ankle Foot Orthosis to Prevent Foot Drop and Assist Push-Off.

Testing the Functionality of a Vibrotactile Ankle Foot Orthosis to Prevent Foot Drop and Assist Push-Off.

... Ankle Foot Orthosis (AFO) with a dynamic biofeedback mechanism to assist individuals who exhibit foot drop by alerting the user to an increasing risk of injury through auditory and vibratory ...

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Functional electrical stimulation and ankle foot orthoses provide equivalent therapeutic effects on foot drop : a meta analysis providing direction for future research

Functional electrical stimulation and ankle foot orthoses provide equivalent therapeutic effects on foot drop : a meta analysis providing direction for future research

... This meta-analysis shows, for the first time, that FES and AFO are statistically proven to have the same therapeutic effect on walking speed in CNS foot drop. This effect has also specifically been shown to ...

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Clinical Reasoning: A 51-year-old woman with acute foot drop

Clinical Reasoning: A 51-year-old woman with acute foot drop

... Therefore, foot drop is commonly attributed to lower motor neuron pathology and L5 radiculopathy is often suspected in the context of herniated nucleus pulposes or foraminal ...

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Foot Drop: Comparison of two Surgical Techniques for a Neglected Clinical Entity

Foot Drop: Comparison of two Surgical Techniques for a Neglected Clinical Entity

... Foot Drop is a quite common clinical ...the foot drop from central causes like stroke to Leprosy to isolated lesion of common peroneal ...of foot drop were operated. Main reason ...

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Comparative study of anterior support ankle foot orthosis and posterior ankle foot orthosis in foot drop patients

Comparative study of anterior support ankle foot orthosis and posterior ankle foot orthosis in foot drop patients

... Ankle Foot Orthosis (A-AFO) has been invented for correcting Foot Drop and similar ...the foot along the shin to a point below the ...the foot to be unobstructed and allow the patient ...

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Design and Implementation of Automated Ankle Foot Orthosis for Foot Drop Patients Using Gait Cycle EMG Analysis

Design and Implementation of Automated Ankle Foot Orthosis for Foot Drop Patients Using Gait Cycle EMG Analysis

... Abstract— Foot drop is known as gait abnormality in which the dropping of the forefoot happens due to the weakness of Tibialis Anterior Muscle for the damage of the common fibular nerve in the anterior ...

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Clinical Reasoning: A 55-year-old man with weight loss, ataxia, and foot drop

Clinical Reasoning: A 55-year-old man with weight loss, ataxia, and foot drop

... We prescribed 8 mg of oral copper daily for 1 week followed by a taper of 2 mg each week until a mainte- nance dose of 2 mg daily was reached. A gluten-free diet was recommended and iron was replaced IV. Serum copper ...

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Tendon Transfer for Foot Drop: A Simple Procedure with Effective Outcome Local Experience

Tendon Transfer for Foot Drop: A Simple Procedure with Effective Outcome Local Experience

... persistent foot drop at least for one year after injury with no signs of improvement clinically or in electrophysiological ...of foot drop in these ...

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A rapidly progressive foot drop caused by the posttraumatic Intraneural ganglion cyst of the deep peroneal nerve

A rapidly progressive foot drop caused by the posttraumatic Intraneural ganglion cyst of the deep peroneal nerve

... We report a case of an intraneural ganglion cyst of the deep peroneal nerve. The lesion was located at the level of the proximal fibular head, leading to foot drop after trauma. The rapid progression has ...

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The evaluation of and comparative evidence for two types of interventional devices for foot drop of central neurological origin

The evaluation of and comparative evidence for two types of interventional devices for foot drop of central neurological origin

... Mechanisms-of-action measures were needed to build evidence to determine if/how the device works and whether the changes to the materials used to construct the DMO dorsiflex sock® preserved known mechanisms of AFOs on ...

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Bilateral foot drop linked to rapid intentional weight loss and long distance walking.

Bilateral foot drop linked to rapid intentional weight loss and long distance walking.

... onset foot drop ranging from deep fibular nerve or sciatic nerve injury caused by trauma or a compressive mass such as a neuroma, to spinal cord disorders like disc herniation causing L4-5 ...in foot ...

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Design of a terrain detection system for foot drop

Design of a terrain detection system for foot drop

... In addition to rigid orthotics, there are also other solutions to the problem of foot drop that attempt to give small shocks (5V max) to the peroneal nerve, causing dorsiflexion [11]. This form of therapy ...

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A pneumatic power harvesting ankle-foot orthosis to prevent foot-drop

A pneumatic power harvesting ankle-foot orthosis to prevent foot-drop

... Recently, Takaiwa and Noritsugu [21] reported the devel- opment of a prototype for another portable pneumatic power-harvesting AFO that supports the foot during swing. The purpose of their design was to reduce ...

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MR Imaging in the Differential Diagnosis of Neurogenic Foot Drop

MR Imaging in the Differential Diagnosis of Neurogenic Foot Drop

... A prospective study comprised 40 consecutive patients (mean age, 41 years; age range, 17–81 years; nine female patients, 31 male patients [Table]) who clinically presented with a foot drop (muscle strength, ...

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The clinical- and cost-effectiveness of functional electrical stimulation and ankle-foot orthoses for foot drop in Multiple Sclerosis : a multicentre randomized trial

The clinical- and cost-effectiveness of functional electrical stimulation and ankle-foot orthoses for foot drop in Multiple Sclerosis : a multicentre randomized trial

... 16 368 Results from this randomised trial which to the best of our knowledge is the first and 369 largest study undertaken comparing the clinical and cost effectiveness of two 370 interv[r] ...

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Continuous gait cycle index estimation for electrical stimulation assisted foot drop correction

Continuous gait cycle index estimation for electrical stimulation assisted foot drop correction

... evolution is linear) to 0.44 sec (half a step). From a mathematical point of view, the performances are good (<15%). From a functional point of view the corre- sponding error in seconds compared with the duration of ...

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The effects of Functional Electrical Stimulation on motor cognitive interference during gait in people with foot drop following stroke

The effects of Functional Electrical Stimulation on motor cognitive interference during gait in people with foot drop following stroke

... As previously mentioned, respondents to the questionnaire study in Chapter 3, identified that FES use had a positive effect on various aspects of walking. Over 80% of respondents agreed that FES made their walking more ...

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Functional electrical stimulation versus ankle foot orthoses for foot drop : a meta analysis of orthotic effects

Functional electrical stimulation versus ankle foot orthoses for foot drop : a meta analysis of orthotic effects

... The Effects of Peroneal Nerve Functional Electrical Stimulation Versus Ankle-Foot Orthosis in Patients With Chronic Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial.. Everaert DG, Stein RB, Abrams [r] ...

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