Up to one's knees in data : data-driven intent recognition using electromyography for the lower limb

Abstract

Approximately two thousand people undergo a major lower-limb amputation in the Netherlands per year. Reasons for amputation vary, but in high income countries vascular diseases are the main cause for amputation [1-5], followed by trauma [1, 6].A lower-limb amputation can drastically change a person's functional abilities, which leads to a lower quality of life [1, 7]. Individuals with an amputation regain some of those functional abilities by learning to use a prosthesis [8]. Most of the prosthetic components are passive and are adequate for most walking scenarios in daily life.However, these devices are not capable of generating power to provide support during standing up and stair walking for instance [8][9][10]. This means that the residual leg Chapter 2

Stiff knee gait in stroke: Walking down the road of different treatment options

“…34,35,45,47,59 Selection of patients Reasons for exclusion were that same patients were used before in another included article, 32,41 no kinematics, 22,38,54 no RF injection, 21,23,[25][26][27][28]39,50 and no full text available in English. 24,29,31,33,36,37,43,44,48,49,[51][52][53][55][56][57][58]60 There was no disagreement in the selection of the remaining 9 articles 30,34,35,40,42,[45][46][47]59 between the 2 reviewers. The flow diagram of study retrieval and selection is presented in figure 1.…”

“…Traditional gait training techniques based on the Bobath concept have not proven to improve SKG or any other movement patterns during gait. 56 The other treatment options for SKG include chemodenervation of the RF or transfer of RF. 20,45,57,58 Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) of the gastrocnemius or hamstrings has also been tried.…”

“…Lennon 56 found no significant improvement in peak knee flexion after physiotherapy based on the Bobath concept in adults with stroke.…”