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HoMEcare aRm rehabiLItatioN (MERLIN): telerehabilitation using an unactuated device based on serious games improves the upper limb function in chronic stroke.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: HoMEcare aRm rehabiLItatioN (MERLIN) is an unactuated version of the robotic device ArmAssist combined with a telecare platform. Stroke patients are able to train the upper limb function using serious games at home. The aim of this study ...

Activities of daily living with bionic arm improved by combination training and latching filter in prosthesis control comparison.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: Advanced prostheses can restore function and improve quality of life for individuals with amputations. Unfortunately, most commercial control strategies do not fully utilize the rich control information from residual nerves and musculatur...

Computational reproductions of external force field adaption without assuming desired trajectories.

Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Optimal feedback control is an established framework that is used to characterize human movement. However, it is not fully understood how the brain computes optimal gains through interactions with the environment. In the past study, we proposed a mod...

On the Impact of Biceps Muscle Fatigue in Human Activity Recognition.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nowadays, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) systems, which use wearables and smart systems, are a part of our daily life. Despite the abundance of literature in the area, little is known about the impact of muscle fatigue on these systems' performance...

Shoulder kinematics plus contextual target information enable control of multiple distal joints of a simulated prosthetic arm and hand.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: Prosthetic restoration of reach and grasp function after a trans-humeral amputation requires control of multiple distal degrees of freedom in elbow, wrist and fingers. However, such a high level of amputation reduces the amount of availab...

A goal-driven modular neural network predicts parietofrontal neural dynamics during grasping.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
One of the primary ways we interact with the world is using our hands. In macaques, the circuit spanning the anterior intraparietal area, the hand area of the ventral premotor cortex, and the primary motor cortex is necessary for transforming visual ...

Effects of robot viscous forces on arm movements in chronic stroke survivors: a randomized crossover study.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: Our previous work showed that speed is linked to the ability to recover in chronic stroke survivors. Participants moving faster on the first day of a 3-week study had greater improvements on the Wolf Motor Function Test.

Robot-Assisted Arm Training versus Therapist-Mediated Training after Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Journal of healthcare engineering
BACKGROUND: More than two-thirds of stroke patients have arm motor impairments and function deficits on hospital admission, leading to diminished quality of life and reduced social participation. Robot-assisted training (RAT) is a promising rehabilit...

Investigating Pain-Related Avoidance Behavior using a Robotic Arm-Reaching Paradigm.

Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE
Avoidance behavior is a key contributor to the transition from acute pain to chronic pain disability. Yet, there has been a lack of ecologically valid paradigms to experimentally investigate pain-related avoidance. To fill this gap, we developed a pa...

Robotics-assisted visual-motor training influences arm position sense in three-dimensional space.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: Performing activities of daily living depends, among other factors, on awareness of the position and movements of limbs. Neural injuries, such as stroke, might negatively affect such an awareness and, consequently, lead to degrading the q...