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Design Strategies and Emerging Applications of High‐Performance Flexible Piezoresistive Pressure Sensors

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Flexible piezoresistive pressure sensors underpin wearable and soft electronics. This review links sensing physics, including contact resistance modulation, quantum tunneling and percolation, to unified materials/structure design. We highlight composite and graded architectures, interfacial/porous engineering, and microstructured 3D conductive networks
Feng Luo, Artur Ciesielski, Paolo Samorì   +2 more
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Exercise training using hybrid assistive limb (HAL) lumbar type for locomotive syndrome: a pilot study

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2021
Background With a rapidly aging population in Japan, locomotive syndrome is becoming an increasingly serious social problem. Exercise therapy using the lumbar type HAL, which is a wearable robot suit that can assist voluntary hip joint motion, would be ...
Kousei Miura, Masao Koda, Kazuhiro Tamaki, Masatoshi Ishida, Aiki Marushima, Toru Funayama, Hiroshi Takahashi, Hiroshi Noguchi, Kentaro Mataki, Yoshihiro Yasunaga, Hiroaki Kawamoto, Yoshiyuki Sankai, Akira Matsumura, Masashi Yamazaki   +13 more
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Unimanual versus bimanual motor imagery classifiers for assistive and rehabilitative brain computer interfaces [PDF]

, 2018
Bimanual movements are an integral part of everyday activities and are often included in rehabilitation therapies. Yet electroencephalography (EEG) based assistive and rehabilitative brain computer interface (BCI) systems typically rely on motor ...
Pangaro, Sara, Putri, Finda, Vuckovic, Aleksandra   +2 more
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Characterization of an Injectable Poly(vinyl alcohol)‐gelatin Hydrogel for Growth Factor Delivery in an Orthopedic Application

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This work introduces photo‐crosslinkable tyraminated poly(vinyl alcohol)‐gelatin (PVA‐GT) hydrogels as tunable injectable platforms for tissue engineering and growth factor delivery applications. This schematic illustrates the two developed hydrogel formulations and the experimental workflow used to evaluate their physico‐chemical properties in vitro ...
Alessia Longoni, Gretel S. Major, Sam Arnold, Samuel Tomkins, Eugenia Spessot, Scott Loeffler, Kieran Lau, Richard Tan, Jessica Harte, Roslyn Kemp, Tess Reynolds, Jelena Rnjak‐Kovacina, Gary J. Hooper, Tim B. F. Woodfield, David C. Kieser, Khoon S. Lim   +15 more
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Development and preliminary evaluation of a novel low cost VR-based upper limb stroke rehabilitation platform using Wii technology. [PDF]

, 2014
Purpose: This paper proposes a novel system (using the Nintendo Wii remote) that offers customised, non-immersive, virtual reality-based, upper-limb stroke rehabilitation and reports on promising preliminary findings with stroke survivors.
Alyson Warland, Cherry Kilbride, Emmanuel Tsekleves, Holden M, Ioannis Theoklitos Paraskevopoulos, Wilson PH   +5 more
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A Modular Bioinstructive Platform Reveals Mechanistic Insights into Additive‐Free, Topography‐Driven Osteogenesis

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Engineered microparticle topographies direct human mesenchymal stem cell osteogenesis without biochemical additives. This osteogenic commitment is driven by canonical Hedgehog signaling and followed by temporal IGF‐II engagement. Two‐photon polymerization demonstrates spatial control, enabling the engineering of topographical gradients that pattern ...
Fatmah I. Ghuloum, Leo A. H. Zeef, Lee A. Stevens, Marco A. N. Domingos, Susan J. Kimber, Mahetab H. Amer   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hybrid Assistive Limb Functional Treatment for a Patient with Chronic Incomplete Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

International Medical Case Reports Journal, 2021
Yuichiro Soma,1 Shigeki Kubota,2 Hideki Kadone,3 Yukiyo Shimizu,1 Hiroshi Takahashi,2 Yasushi Hada,1 Masao Koda,2 Yoshiyuki Sankai,4 Masashi Yamazaki2 1Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Tsukuba Hospital, Ibaraki, Japan; 2Department of ...
Soma Y, Kubota S, Kadone H, Shimizu Y, Takahashi H, Hada Y, Koda M, Sankai Y, Yamazaki M   +8 more
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Robotic and Sensor Technologies for Mobility in Older People [PDF]

, 2017
Maintaining independent mobility is fundamental to independent living and to the quality of life of older people. Robotic and sensor technologies may offer a lot of potential and can make a significant difference in the lives of older people and to their
Cavallo, Filippo, D'Onofrio, Grazia, Giuliani, Francesco, Gkiokas, Alexander, Greco, Antonio, Penteridis, Lazaros, Ricciardi, Francesco, Sancarlo, Daniele, Trochidis, Ilias   +8 more
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Microengineered Gradient Hydrogels for Mechanobiology

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Gradient hydrogels are used to mimic the mechanical heterogeneity in native tissues, offering powerful in vitro platforms to study cell‐material interactions in diverse pathophysiological contexts. Here, we present a comprehensive review of the design and experimental considerations for stiffness gradient hydrogels, discussing exemplary achievements ...
Shin Wei Chong, Deepu Ashok, Anna Waterhouse, Marcela M. M. Bilek, Daniele Vigolo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multi Degree of Freedom Hybrid FES and Robotic Control of the Upper Limb

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
Individuals who have suffered a spinal cord injury often require assistance to complete daily activities, and for individuals with tetraplegia, recovery of upper-limb function is among their top priorities.
Nathan Dunkelberger, Skye A. Carlson, Jeffrey Berning, Eric M. Schearer, Marcia K. O'Malley   +4 more
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