Abstract: Restoring the motor function is a major goal for patients suffering from incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI), and associates with many factors, including the natural recovery and rehabilitation. The rehabilitation engineers are working to develop lower extremity exoskeleton robot that can assist gait training and recovery. Lower extremity exoskeleton robots used in walking ability reconstruction are becoming more advanced and sophisticated during the last decade. This review focuses on new application and technological progress which can be used to recover walking ability and evaluate the quality of movement after motor rehabilitation quantitatively by therapists.

Key words: lower extremity exoskeleton, incomplete spinal cord injury, walking ability, review