Innovative researchers are employing flexible, rather than rigid materials in combination with new design approaches as part of the emerging field of biomedical soft robotics. The idea is to generate tools that conform to and interact with the human ...
Journal of back and musculoskeletal rehabilitation
Jan 1, 2018
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of robotic rehabilitation on upper extremity functions, cognitive development, and activities of daily living in patients with subacute stroke.
Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
Jan 1, 2018
OBJECTIVE: A portable back massage robot which can complete the massage operations such as tapping, kneading and rolling was designed to improve the level of intelligence and massage effect. An efficient full covered path planning algorithm was put f...
Haptics has proven to be highly beneficial in surgical robotics, bringing enhanced safety and precision by complementing the surgeon's visual channel. However, most of the research body in this context is dedicated to applications involving tradition...
Journal of orthopaedic surgery (Hong Kong)
Jan 1, 2018
This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of using the upper limb single-joint Hybrid Assistive Limb (upper limb HAL-SJ) during elbow flexion training following elbow flexor reconstruction for brachial plexus injury (BPI). We present ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2018
Handing down nursing skills of experienced nurses to newcomer nurses is difficult. Kawano's earlier studies have specifically examined brain wave synchronization between a nurse and patient during intravenous injection. Presumably, a good technique c...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2018
The vertiginous development of robotics, as part of the Artificial Intelligence, is currently raising its potential from the point of view of care. The purpose of the present article is the robotic implementation of a logical sequence model of the ph...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2018
Pain in child population is presented as a vital process which produces a variation in capacities and needs of care. That pain has an impact on the child's develpoment and therefore on his self-care agency acquisition. That is why the care provided t...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2018
In this study, we aimed to teach elementary school students how to practically deal with elderly people with dementia and developed and evaluated teaching materials using a communication robot called Pepper. The teaching material used the robot to mo...
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