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AssigneeThe Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
InventorsSunil K. Agrawal, Joon-Hyuk Park, Paul Stegall
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Active wearable body brace embodiments provide selectable conformation control of the interface between the trunk of a human subject and the brace, which conformation may be varied over time and responsively to feedback and an updateable prescription. Further active wearable body brace embodiments provide selectable movement control of the interface between the trunk of a human subject and the brace with up to six degrees of freedom between elements to allow a controller to implement operations such as muscle challenges, active support, and passive-like support where actuators mimic springs. Further embodiments may also provide detection functions such as quantifying muscle weakness. The features of these embodiments may be combined in various ways to provide still further embodiments.
A mobile wearable body brace suitable for correcting a spinal deformity of a person, comprising:
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