Postoperative Acute-Phase Gait Training Using Hybrid Assistive Limb Improves Gait Ataxia in a Patient with Intradural Spinal Cord Compression Due to Spinal Tumors
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Case Presentation
2.1. Patient Information
2.2. Surgical Procedure and Postoperative Courset
2.3. Clinical Findings
3. Methods
3.1. Measurement
3.2. Joint Angles
3.3. Electromyography
3.4. Therapeutic Intervention
HAL Gait Training
3.5. Data Analysis
Joint Angles
3.6. Electromyography
4. Results
5. Discussion
6. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Soma, Y.; Kubota, S.; Kadone, H.; Shimizu, Y.; Hada, Y.; Koda, M.; Sankai, Y.; Yamazaki, M. Postoperative Acute-Phase Gait Training Using Hybrid Assistive Limb Improves Gait Ataxia in a Patient with Intradural Spinal Cord Compression Due to Spinal Tumors. Medicina 2022, 58, 1825. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina58121825
Soma Y, Kubota S, Kadone H, Shimizu Y, Hada Y, Koda M, Sankai Y, Yamazaki M. Postoperative Acute-Phase Gait Training Using Hybrid Assistive Limb Improves Gait Ataxia in a Patient with Intradural Spinal Cord Compression Due to Spinal Tumors. Medicina. 2022; 58(12):1825. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina58121825
Chicago/Turabian StyleSoma, Yuichiro, Shigeki Kubota, Hideki Kadone, Yukiyo Shimizu, Yasushi Hada, Masao Koda, Yoshiyuki Sankai, and Masashi Yamazaki. 2022. "Postoperative Acute-Phase Gait Training Using Hybrid Assistive Limb Improves Gait Ataxia in a Patient with Intradural Spinal Cord Compression Due to Spinal Tumors" Medicina 58, no. 12: 1825. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina58121825