Description:
Walking is so fundamental in everyday life that it is, for most people, an unconscious action. Loss or limitations in the ability to walk or stand directly impair our mobility and independence. Reasons of limitations can be stroke, paraplegia, or other damages to nerves, muscles, tendons, or limbs, encephalitis, brain abscesses, myopathies and further incidents and diseases affecting the motor control or the musculoskeletal system. In many cases, patients can be helped by, e.g., the use of orthoses for the lower limbs which assist to support the body and enable the patients to regain their ...