Biomechanical and physiological effects of a passive upper-body exoskeleton during stair ascent and descent

• Gabriela Garcia ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mggarcia@usfq.edu.ec

  Affiliation Departmento de Ingeniería Industrial, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5666-2156

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• Milena Espoz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Milena Espoz, Camilo Albuja, Rafaella Yañez

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Departmento de Ingeniería Industrial, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

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• Camilo Albuja ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Milena Espoz, Camilo Albuja, Rafaella Yañez

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Departmento de Ingeniería Industrial, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

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• Rafaella Yañez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Milena Espoz, Camilo Albuja, Rafaella Yañez

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Departmento de Ingeniería Industrial, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

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• Paul G. Arauz ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ PGA and BJM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8724-7035

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• Bernard J. Martin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ PGA and BJM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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