Comparison of strategies and performance of functional electrical stimulation cycling in spinal cord injury pilots for competition in the first ever CYBATHLON.
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Coste CA
INRIA / LIRMM, Montpellier, France.
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Bergeron V
ENS Lyon, France.
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Berkelmans R
Berkelmans, BerkelBike BV, Netherlands.
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Martins EF
NTAAI / UnB, Brasília, Brazil.
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Fornusek C
EXSS, University of Sydney, Australia.
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Jetsada A
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Mahidol University, Thailand.
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Hunt KJ
Institute for Rehabilitation and Performance Technology, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland.
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Tong R
Dept of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.
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Triolo R
Case Western Reserve University and the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, USA.
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Wolf P
Sensory-Motor Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
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- European journal of translational myology. - 2017
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Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) can elicit muscular contraction and restore motor function in paralyzed limbs. FES is a rehabilitation technique applied to various sensorimotor deficiencies and in different functional situations, e.g. grasping, walking, standing, transfer, cycling and rowing. FES can be combined with mechanical devices. FES-assisted cycling is mainly used in clinical environments for training sessions on cycle ergometers, but it has also been adapted for mobile devices, usually tricycles. In October 2016, twelve teams participated in the CYBATHLON competition in the FES-cycling discipline for persons with motor-complete spinal cord injury. It was the first event of this kind and a wide variety of strategies, techniques and designs were employed by the different teams in the competition. The approaches of the teams are detailed in this special issue. We hope that the knowledge contained herein, together with recent positive results of FES for denervated degenerating muscles, will provide a solid basis to encourage improvements in FES equipment and open new opportunities for many patients in need of safe and effective FES management. We hope to see further developments and/or the benefit of new training strategies at future FES competitions, e.g. at the Cybathlon 2020 (www.cybathlon.ethz.ch).
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