An instrumented crutch for monitoring patients’ weight distribution during orthopaedic rehabilitation AbstractThis paper discusses an instrumented forearm crutch that has been developed to monitor a patient’s weight bearing over the full period of their recovery, and that can potentially be used in a home environment....
Assessing user experience with crutch use a review of literature... This literature review examines the current research be-ing conducted on consumer experience with crutch use and identifies key elements related to this topic....
Upper extremity kinetics during lofstrand crutch-assisted gait in children... Children with pathologies such as osteogenesis imperfecta, spinal cord injury, and cerebral palsy use assistive devices such as anterior and posterior walkers, canes, Lofstrand and axillary crutches for ambulation purposes.Statistics...
Wearable and motorized crutch control systemThis paper proposes a wearable and motorized crutch control system for the patients usingthe conventional crutches....
