TY - JOUR
T1 - Long-term effects of a soft robotic suit on gait characteristics in healthy elderly persons
AU - Jin, Shanhai
AU - Xiong, Xiaogang
AU - Zhao, Dejin
AU - Jin, Changfu
AU - Yamamoto, Motoji
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This research was funded by the Research Foundation of Jilin Province Development and Reform Commission (Grant No. 2019C048-2), the Shenzhen Peacock Technical Innovation Funding (Grant No. KQJSCX20170726103546683), the Science & Technology Development Foundation of Jilin Province (Grant No. 20180520019JH), the Science & Technology Research Foundation of the Education Department of Jilin Province (Grant No. JJKH20180883KJ), and the Grant-in-Aid for the Adaptable & Seamless Technology Transfer program through Target-driven R&D of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (Grant No. AS2415010K).
Funding Information:
This research was funded by the Research Foundation of Jilin Province Development and Reform Commission (Grant No. 2019C048-2), the Shenzhen Peacock Technical Innovation Funding (Grant No. KQJSCX20170726103546683), the Science & Technology Development Foundation of Jilin Province (Grant No. 20180520019JH), the Science & Technology Research Foundation of the Education Department of Jilin Province (Grant No. JJKH20180883KJ), and the Grant-in-Aid for the Adaptable & Seamless Technology Transfer program through Target-driven R&D of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (Grant No. AS2415010K).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by the authors.
PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - As a walking assistive device for elderly persons, one of the major aims should be to improve and rehabilitate gait characteristics after long-term repeated use of the device. However, most of the existing research on walking assistive devices only emphasize their immediate effects, and there is limited research indicating the long-term effects. To address this gap, this paper experimentally validates the effects of our soft wearable robotic suit on gait characteristics of elderly persons after repeated use of the device for six weeks. Experimental results on four elderly subjects (age = 74.8 ± 5.0 year) show that, after six weeks of gait rehabilitation training by the robotic suit, the gait characteristics of the subjects were improved, leading to an increased walk ratio with an average of 9.8% compared with the initial state. The results of this research will benefit the potential use of the robotic suit in gait training and rehabilitation for elderly persons and also will be useful to the establishment of practical guidelines that maximize the training and rehabilitation effectiveness of the robotic suit.
AB - As a walking assistive device for elderly persons, one of the major aims should be to improve and rehabilitate gait characteristics after long-term repeated use of the device. However, most of the existing research on walking assistive devices only emphasize their immediate effects, and there is limited research indicating the long-term effects. To address this gap, this paper experimentally validates the effects of our soft wearable robotic suit on gait characteristics of elderly persons after repeated use of the device for six weeks. Experimental results on four elderly subjects (age = 74.8 ± 5.0 year) show that, after six weeks of gait rehabilitation training by the robotic suit, the gait characteristics of the subjects were improved, leading to an increased walk ratio with an average of 9.8% compared with the initial state. The results of this research will benefit the potential use of the robotic suit in gait training and rehabilitation for elderly persons and also will be useful to the establishment of practical guidelines that maximize the training and rehabilitation effectiveness of the robotic suit.
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U2 - 10.3390/app9091957
DO - 10.3390/app9091957
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85067170593
SN - 2076-3417
VL - 9
JO - Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
JF - Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
IS - 9
M1 - 1957
ER -