Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành hóa học dành cho các bạn yêu hóa học tham khảo đề tài: Standardized voluntary force measurement in a lower extremity rehabilitation robot | Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation BioMed Central Research Standardized voluntary force measurement in a lower extremity rehabilitation robot Marc Bolliger 1 2 Raphael Banz1 Volker Dietz1 and Lars Lunenburger1 Open Access Address Spinal Cord Injury Center Balgrist University Hospital Zurich Switzerland and 2Sensory-Motor Systems Laboratory ETH Zurich Switzerland Email Marc Bolliger - mbolliger@ Raphael Banz - rbanz@ Volker Dietz - Lars Lunenburger - Corresponding author Published 28 October 2008 Received 12 December 2007 Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2008 5 23 doi l743-0003-5-23 Accepted 28 October 2008 This article is available from http content 5 1 23 2008 Bolliger et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Isometric force measurements in the lower extremity are widely used in rehabilitation of subjects with neurological movement disorders NMD because walking ability has been shown to be related to muscle strength. Therefore muscle strength measurements can be used to monitor and control the effects of training programs. A new method to assess isometric muscle force was implemented in the driven gait orthosis DGO Lokomat. To evaluate the capabilities of this new measurement method inter- and intra-rater reliability were assessed. Methods Reliability was assessed in subjects with and without NMD. Subjects were tested twice on the same day by two different therapists to test inter-rater reliability and on two separate days by the same therapist to test intra-rater reliability. Results Results showed fair to good reliability for the new .
