Soft Robotic Exosuits Help Patients Walk After Stroke (2 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Soft Robotic Exosuits Help Patients Walk After Stroke (2 of 4)

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A low-profile, lightweight, soft-robotic exosuit that helped recovering stroke patients attain a normal walking stride.. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 26, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by L.N. Awad at Harvard University in Boston, Mass., and colleagues was titled, " A soft robotic exosuit improves walking in patients after stroke."

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[Credit: L.N. Awad <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2017)]

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