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Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation [PDF]

Stroke, 2003
One of the most exciting areas of stroke research is our increasing understanding of the brain’s plasticity and the ability of rehabilitation to influence neurological recovery and subsequently impact clinical outcomes. Pomeroy and Tallis1 note, “The recent revolution in our understanding of the nervous system as being soft-wired, of the potential for ...
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Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Hybrid continuum robots represent an emerging class of flexible manipulators that blend materials, structures, and actuation concepts from the established fields of soft and continuum robotics. This review introduces an accessible framework to distinguish key hybridization approaches, surveys current designs aimed at complex clinical applications, and ...
Burak Ozdemir, Muhammad A. Khalid, Manish Chauhan, Pietro Valdastri, James H. Chandler   +4 more
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Barriers to adherence of stroke rehabilitation: therapist and patient’s perspective

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
Objective: To explore the perspectives of physiotherapists and patients regarding barriers to stroke rehabilitation. Method: The qualitative, descriptive study was conducted from January to December 2022 after approval from the ethics review board of ...
Taliha Hamid Tareen, Arshad Nawaz Malik, Saira Jahan   +2 more
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Bioinspired Soft‐Skeleton Robotics With Cooperative Shape Transformation and Stiffness Adaptation

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A bioinspired soft‐skeleton robot that integrates variable‐stiffness chain skeletons into a soft textile skin is developed. The chain skeletons are highly flexible initially but can stiffen upon pneumatic actuation, enabling large deformation and enhanced load‐bearing capacity.
Mengyuan Niu, Xiaorui Hu, Chenmin Yuan, Haoyun Li, Xuzhong Su, Fengxin Sun   +5 more
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Sleep Disorders and Stroke Rehabilitation: Exploration of Treatment Strategies from the Neuroplasticity Perspective

Zhongguo cuzhong zazhi
: Stroke, as a neurological disease characterized by high disability and mortality rates, poses a significant threat to the long-term quality of life for patients. Effective neurofunctional rehabilitation measures can substantially mitigate the long-term
WU Xiaoli, LIU Lixu
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Engineering Approaches to Modify Immunomodulatory Functions of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs): Tissue Regeneration and Clinical Application

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) show promise for treating immune‐related disorders through immunomodulation and tissue regeneration. This review gives a brief overview of current clinical approval of MSC therapies. It also discussed how bioengineering, including genetic modification, biomaterial delivery, extracellular vesicles, and iPSC‐derived MSCs,
Sichen Yang, Kejia Li, Ning Wang, Zhen Li, Zhiyong Zhang, Rocky S. Tuan, Yangzi Jiang   +6 more
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Survey and analysis of awareness, participation, and satisfaction rate of stroke patients in the Xuzhou region regarding rehabilitation and related factors

Scientific Reports
Post-Rehabilitation is crucial for the recovery of stroke patients after a stroke. However, current research lacks investigations into stroke patients’ awareness of the need for rehabilitation after a stroke.
Yang Huo, Sijie Liang, Quanqing Wei, Yunyun Zhang, Ting Zhang, Jie Xiang   +5 more
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Smart Nanotechnologies for Multimodal Neuromodulation and Brain Interfacing

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Recent advances in smart nanotechnologies are expanding the toolbox for brain interfacing, from wireless neuromodulation and high‐resolution sensing to targeted delivery within the central nervous system. By combining responsive nanomaterials with bioinspired design, these platforms enable multimodal interactions with neurons and glia, while also ...
Tommaso Curiale, Marie Celine Lefevre, Alessio Carmignani, Maria Cristina Ceccarelli, Matteo Battaglini, Attilio Marino, Gianni Ciofani   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mediation of “Rehabilitation Motivation” between Stroke Impact and Quality of Life Among Heart Stroke Patients

Pakistan Journal of Medical Research, 2020
Background: Heart stroke is one of the ever burning worldwide concern due to its high impact on global burden of morbidity, mortality and disability. Objective: The present study examined the mediating role of stroke rehabilitation motivation between
Tayyaba Manzoor, Muhammad Naveed Riaz, Humaira Yasmin   +2 more
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