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Received: 5 January 2018

Accepted: 11 June 2018

First Online: 19 June 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The study is approved by The Joint Chinese University of Hong Kong-New Territories East Cluster Clinical Research Ethics Committee (The Joint CUHK-NTEC CREC) (CRE Ref. no. 2015.037-T). This RCT was designed following the principle of the Declaration of Helsinki. Written consent to participate in the experiment were obtained from all subjects recruited.

: The people with stroke in Fig. InternalRef removed have consented to the publication of the photograph.

: Yeung LF, Ockenfeld C, Pang MK, Wai HW, and Tong KY are co-inventors of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University-held patent for the robot-assisted AFO used in this study. All authors, however, are of no financial relationship whatsoever for the submitted work with Rehab-Robotics Company Ltd., the company under license agreement with the University.

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