Recovery of the ability to maintain balance during standing is one of the primary and
essential goals of rehabilitation programs for individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). Regaining functionality during standing by means of a neuroprosthesis would decrease secondary complications and increase independence, and would consequently improve the quality of life of these individuals. However, the development of a standing neuro- prosthesis requires techniques to generate reliable and predictable torque vectors in the lower limbs. We proposed and tested a method based on surface Functional Electrical
Stimulation (FES) and the idea that three independent muscles can form a basis that
would span the joint torque vector space. We tested the proposed stimulation technique
on the quadriceps muscles that produce knee extension. The results of this study suggest
that the quadriceps muscle basis vectors are insufficient to cover the knee joint vector
space.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/29613 |
| Date | 25 August 2011 |
| Creators | Sanin, Egor |
| Contributors | Popovic, Milos R. |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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