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Recent Advances of Slip Sensors for Smart Robotics

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review summarizes recent progress in robotic slip sensors across mechanical, electrical, thermal, optical, magnetic, and acoustic mechanisms, offering a comprehensive reference for the selection of slip sensors in robotic applications. In addition, current challenges and emerging trends are identified to advance the development of robust, adaptive,
Xingyu Zhang, Liao Wu, Shuai He, Zhao Sha, Yuwan Huang, Shuying Wu, Dewei Chu, Chun H. Wang, Shuhua Peng   +8 more
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Fabric‐Based Wearable Robotic Exoskeleton Gloves: Advancements and Challenges

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review highlights interdisciplinary technological advances in fabric‐based robotic gloves, focusing on progress in design, fabrication, actuation, sensing, control, and power and energy requirements. It also addresses performance testing and validation, including biomechanical, strength, functional, user experience, and durability assessments, to ...
Ayse Feyza Yilmaz, Gökhan Ince, Ozgur Atalay   +2 more
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An Accessible Microfluidic Platform for the Generation of Polarized Brain Organoids

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This study presents an accessible double‐gradient microfluidic device that enables controlled morphogen delivery and spatially polarized differentiation in brain organoids. By integrating a pump‐free design and stable fabrication method, the platform generates dorsal–ventral neuronal asymmetry, offering a reproducible and versatile approach to model ...
Daniel Pérez‐Calixto, Manuel Alejandro Vazquez Valle, Mitzi Pérez‐Calixto, Cindy Peto‐Gutiérrez, Iván Velasco, Genaro Vázquez‐Victorio, Itzel Escobedo‐Avila   +6 more
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Impact of Brief Manual Therapy on The Degree of Pain and Functional Limitations in Individuals with Low Back Pain [PDF]

International Journal of Medical Arts
Background: Every year, there is a rise in the prevalence of musculoskeletal problems, with chronic back and neck pain being among the most common complaints requiring manual therapy treatment.
Adel Azzam, Saad Ghanem, Ahmed Ezz, Hatem Ibrahim   +3 more
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An unusual mechanism of spinal cord injury due to active neck stretching and its functional implications

Clinical Case Reports, 2020
Spinal cord injury without radiological abnormality is a rare entity and has not been reported to occur secondary to active neck stretching. The case report highlights the possible mechanisms of injury and functional outcomes of multidisciplinary ...
Sami Ullah, Ahmad Zaheer Qureshi, Sherif Samir Tantawy, Yazid Antar AlJaizani   +3 more
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Vision‐Augmented Wearable Interfaces: Bioinspired Approaches for Realistic AI‐Human‐Machine Interaction

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review presents recent progress in vision‐augmented wearable interfaces that combine artificial vision, soft wearable sensors, and exoskeletal robots. Inspired by biological visual systems, these technologies enable multimodal perception and intelligent human–machine interaction.
Jihun Lee, Gwuidong Ryu, Kisoo Kim, Feng Xu, Won Gu Lee   +4 more
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Toward Wireless Implantable Robotic Systems Driven by Magnetic Field for Personalized Therapy

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Robotic materials are playing an increasingly vital role in enabling sensing and actuation at small scales. This perspective highlights recent advances in magnetic materials and magnetically actuated devices for wireless sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting toward implantable robotic systems for closed‐loop therapy.
Yusheng Wang, Ruijian Ge, Xiaoguang Dong
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Nonlocomotory Robotic Strategies for Dynamic Rotation Control in Terrestrial Robots: A Review

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Terrestrial robots increasingly require rapid body rotation to maintain stability and agility in complex environments. This review shows nonlocomotory rotational control strategies that operate without ground contact, including reaction wheels, tails, bars, limbs, and thrusters.
Y. Liang, J. An, X. Zheng, D. Wang, S. Wang, X. Wang, P. Zhu, J. Pei, S. Li, J. Paripurana, Y. Han, Z. Tang, X. Gan, Q. He, X. Ma   +14 more
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A comparison of spinal manipulation with physical therapy for treatment of patients with mechanical low back pain

Majallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Bābul, 2002
Background and Objective: With regard to high prevalence of mechanical low back pain (LBP) and its increasing in society and known treatment of physical therapy and also previous successes of spinal manipulation, this study was carried out to compare ...
M Rayegani, MH Bahrami, M Farjad, MN Ahrari, N Valaie   +4 more
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Manipulation-induced hypoalgesia in musculoskeletal pain populations: a systematic critical review and meta-analysis

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2019
Background Manipulation-induced hypoalgesia (MIH) represents reduced pain sensitivity following joint manipulation, and has been documented in various populations.
Sasha L. Aspinall, Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde, Sarah J. Etherington, Bruce F. Walker   +3 more
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