Neurorehabilitation and neural repair
Dec 1, 2022
OBJECTIVE: To assess whether dual transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) may enhance the efficacy of exoskeleton robotic training on upper limb motor functions in patients with chronic stroke.
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2022
Currently, therapists struggle with interaction of rehabilitation robots due to non-intuitive interfaces. Therefore their acceptance of these robots are limited. This paper presents the development of ARMStick, a lightweight and small robotic interfa...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2022
Robotic-based rehabilitation administered by means of serious games certainly represents the frontier of rehabilitation treatments, offering a high degree of customization of therapy, to meet individual patients' needs and to tailor a proper rehabili...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2022
Body-powered upper-limb prostheses remain a popular option for those with limb absence due to their passive nature. These devices typically feature a constant transmission ratio between the forces input by the user and the grasp forces output by the ...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2022
Spinal cord injury (SCI) affects a large number of individuals in the United States. Unfortunately, traditional neurorehabilitation therapy leaves out clinical populations with limited motor function, such as severe stroke or spinal cord injury, as t...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2022
Arm type or exoskeleton type rehabilitation robots move the patient's upper limb through one or more, either free or restrained connection points. The rehabilitation robot is unsafe if it moves the patient's upper limb beyond the limits of the anatom...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2022
Eating and drinking is an essential part of every-day life. And yet, there are many people in the world today who rely on others to feed them. In this work, we present a prototype robot-assisted self-feeding system for individuals with movement disor...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2022
Rehabilitation exoskeletons can supplement therapist-based training allowing post-stroke patients to perform functional, high-dosage, repetitive exercises. The use of robotic devices allows providing intense rehabilitation sessions and permits clinic...
IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2022
Growing evidence shows that increasing the dose of upper limb therapy after stroke might improve functional outcomes and unsupervised robot-assisted therapy may be a solution to achieve such an increase without adding workload on therapists. However,...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2022
The state of the art is still lacking an extensive analysis of which clinical characteristics are leading to better outcomes after robot-assisted rehabilitation on post-stroke patients. Prognostic machine learning-based models could promote the ident...