TABLE 1.
Distribution of type of assistance and purpose (empowerment/assistive or rehabilitation) across passive, quasi-passive and active devices.
| Type of assistance | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drop-foot | Foot-slap | Push-off | Full gait | Drop-foot + foot-slap | Drop-foot + push-off | |||
| Passive | Impaired assist | 11 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||
| Healthy assist | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| Both assist | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Rehabilitation | ||||||||
| TOTAL | 16 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 4 | |||
| Quasi-passive | Impaired | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Healthy assist | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| Both assist | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Rehabilitation | ||||||||
| TOTAL | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| Active | Impaired assist | 19 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 4 | |
| Healthy assist | 10 | 10 | ||||||
| Both assist | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Rehabilitation | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| TOTAL | 32 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 4 | ||
Note that some devices are intended to support both impaired and healthy users. The individual publications making up these total numbers can be checked in the Supplementary Table S1 of the Supplementary Material.
Bold values represent the total (sum of all numbers in the same row).