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Evaluation of Clinical Outcomes of Patients with Post-Stroke Wrist and Finger Spasticity after Ultrasonography-Guided BTX-A Injection and Rehabilitation Training

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015
Objective: Using ultrasonography (US) to guide botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) injection in patients with post-stroke wrist and finger flexor muscle spasticity and assessing clinical outcomes after the injection and rehabilitation intervention.
Li eJiang, Zu-lin eDou, Qing eWang, Qiao-yuan eWang, Meng eDai, zhen ewang, Xiao-mei eWei, Ying-bei eChen   +7 more
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Multimodal Human–Robot Interaction Using Human Pose Estimation and Local Large Language Models

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A multimodal human–robot interaction framework integrates human pose estimation (HPE) and a large language model (LLM) for gesture‐ and voice‐based robot control. Speech‐to‐text (STT) enables voice command interpretation, while a safety‐aware arbitration mechanism prioritizes gesture input for rapid intervention.
Nasiru Aboki, Ilche Georgievski, Marco Aiello   +2 more
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Design and characterization of the OpenWrist: A robotic wrist exoskeleton for coordinated hand-wrist rehabilitation [PDF]

2017 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), 2017
Robotic devices have been clinically verified for use in long duration and high intensity rehabilitation needed for motor recovery after neurological injury. Targeted and coordinated hand and wrist therapy, often overlooked in rehabilitation robotics, is required to regain the ability to perform activities of daily living.
Evan Pezent, Chad G. Rose, Ashish D. Deshpande, Marcia K. O'Malley   +3 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Intelligent Medical Rehabilitation Training Instrument Based on Movement Coordination

IEEE Access, 2020
This study designed an intelligent medical rehabilitation training system based on motion coordination, which is mainly aimed at patients with balance functions and motion coordination disorders.
Yanfeng Su, Liang Su
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Design and Modeling of a High‐Displacement, Skin‐Integrated Flexible Electromagnetic Actuator for Haptic Interfaces in Virtual Reality

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A flexible, skin‐integrated electromagnetic actuator is developed for wearable virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) haptic systems. A tunable design model enables control over displacement and resonance frequency. The system is validated through a custom VR application with a 6 × 4 actuator array, demonstrating real‐time, spatially targeted tactile ...
Naji Tarabay, Alexandra Zhang Jiang, Ziteng Liu, Rachel Villamor, Derek Cha, Ananya Renuka Balakrishna, Tianshu Liu, Priyanshu Agarwal, Rainer Dömer, Camilo Velez   +9 more
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Strategic Design of Soft Actuators in Translational Medical Robotics for Human‐Centered Healthcare

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robotics enables biocompatible, compliant medical devices, but clinical translation requires design‐driven engineering beyond materials. This perspective reviews implantable, surgical, and wearable systems by actuation mechanism, highlighting how optimized architectures and integration improve mechanical interfacing, adaptability, and durability ...
Ho Jun Jin, Jimin Kim, Inho Kim, Bong Hoon Kim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

ILC for FES-based stroke rehabilitation of hand and wrist [PDF]

2012 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, 2012
Functional electrical stimulation (FES) has been shown to be an effective technique for stroke rehabilitation, but when applied to support wrist and hand movement, current controllers in clinical use are almost exclusively open-loop which degrades their accuracy and hence therapeutic potential.
Anna Izabela Soska, Christopher T. Freeman, Eric Rogers   +2 more
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Wavy‐Interlocked Stretchable Triboelectric Nanogenerators Enhanced by Liquid Metal Microflowers for Self‐Powered Wearable Motion Monitoring

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Schematic showing a stretchable triboelectric nanogenerator based on interlocked wavy architectures that uses EGaIn microflower‐embedded PVDF‐TrFE and Nylon‐6 nanofiber membranes. The multi‐petaled, electron‐rich EGaIn microflowers enhance interfacial polarization and capacitance, while the interlocked wavy architecture enlarges the effective contact ...
Qianqian Xu, Huimin Li, Hanmin Zeng, Yahui Meng, Yimeng He, Xinke Hu, Senfeng Zhao, Jianxun Zhang, Peiqiong Zhou, Kechao Zhou, Dou Zhang, Chris Bowen, Yan Zhang   +12 more
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Development of wearable rehabilitation device using parallel link mechanism: rehabilitation of compound motion combining palmar/dorsi flexion and radial/ulnar deviation

ROBOMECH Journal, 2018
In recent years, the total number of physical therapists is increasing in Japan. However, it is not sufficient to nurse of patients requiring long-term care.
Yudai Kitano, Tsutomu Tanzawa, Kazutaka Yokota   +2 more
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