Soft Robotic Exosuits Help Patients Walk After Stroke (1 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Soft Robotic Exosuits Help Patients Walk After Stroke (1 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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