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Carbon fiber Ankle Foot Orthoses (AFOs) are widely used to help walking the patients having so called foot drop or similar diseases or just to improve walking performance. AFO's overall and its footplate stiffness's have the most effect on their functionality, however usually the whole AFO's rigidity is taken into account. The article describes the...
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... object of the research is five carbon-fiber AFO braces with lateral strut, (Fig. 1) where all of them are one- piece (with no hinges connecting metatarsal (foot) and proximal (calf) parts). In all cases the lateral strut is attached to the footplate at the same position -near 2/3rds of footplate chord. The main differences are in the shape or even more in structure of the ...
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