H J HOLMQUEST’s scientific contributions

... And there is a traceable history of generating physical movement through electrical stimulation and using it in the therapeutic field. As early as the 1960s, clinical trials were conducted to correct foot drop in stroke survivors by electrically stimulating the peroneal nerve in the affected leg [10]. ...

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Implications of neuromuscular electrical stimulation on gait ability, balance and kinematic parameters after stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis

... To the best of our knowledge, the first investigations that used accelerometry to explicitly examine walking were by Liberson in 1930s, who discovered that basic acceleration patterns of body segments could reveal critical information regarding normal and pathological gait [83,84]. Cavagna et al. [85,86] and Gage [68] furthered this line of research in the 1960s by applying more advanced mathematical techniques to trunk acceleration data to estimate external mechanical work, and rhythmicity of walking patterns respectively. ...

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Accelerometry: A technique for quantifying movement patterns during walking