AIMC Topic: Spinal Cord Injuries

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Robot-assisted Therapy for the Upper Limb after Cervical Spinal Cord Injury.

Physical medicine and rehabilitation clinics of North America
Tetraplegia resulting from cervical injury is the most frequent neurologic category after spinal cord injury and causes substantial disability. The residual strength of partially paralyzed muscles is an important determinant of independence and funct...

Pressure redistributing in-seat movement activities by persons with spinal cord injury over multiple epochs.

PloS one
Pressure ulcers, by definition, are caused by external forces on the tissues, often in the regions of bony prominences. Wheelchair users are at risk to develop sitting-acquired pressure ulcers, which occur in the regions of the ischial tuberosities, ...

Vision-aided brain-machine interface training system for robotic arm control and clinical application on two patients with cervical spinal cord injury.

Biomedical engineering online
BACKGROUND: While spontaneous robotic arm control using motor imagery has been reported, most previous successful cases have used invasive approaches with advantages in spatial resolution. However, still many researchers continue to investigate metho...

Spinal cord detection in planning CT for radiotherapy through adaptive template matching, IMSLIC and convolutional neural networks.

Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The spinal cord is a very important organ that must be protected in treatments of radiotherapy (RT), considered an organ at risk (OAR). Excess rays associated with the spinal cord can cause irreversible diseases in patients ...

An EOG-based wheelchair robotic arm system for assisting patients with severe spinal cord injuries.

Journal of neural engineering
OBJECTIVE: In this study, we combine a wheelchair and an intelligent robotic arm based on an electrooculogram (EOG) signal to help patients with spinal cord injuries (SCIs) accomplish a self-drinking task. The main challenge is to accurately control ...

Exo-Glove Poly II: A Polymer-Based Soft Wearable Robot for the Hand with a Tendon-Driven Actuation System.

Soft robotics
This article presents Exo-Glove Poly (EGP) II, a soft wearable robot for the hand with a glove that is completely constructed of polymer materials and that operates through tendon-driven actuation for use in spinal cord injury (SCI). EGP II can resto...

Assisting hand function after spinal cord injury with a fabric-based soft robotic glove.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: Spinal cord injury is a devastating condition that can dramatically impact hand motor function. Passive and active assistive devices are becoming more commonly used to enhance lost hand strength and dexterity. Soft robotics is an emerging...

Prediction of central neuropathic pain in spinal cord injury based on EEG classifier.

Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology
OBJECTIVES: To create a classifier based on electroencephalography (EEG) to identify spinal cord injured (SCI) participants at risk of developing central neuropathic pain (CNP) by comparing them with patients who had already developed pain and with a...