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Upper extremity injuries have significant negative effects on personal safety, physical functioning, quality of life, body image and self-concept. In this literature review we present a state of the art for upper extremity impairments in African low- and middle-income countries, with a focus on impairments that have a significant impact on the ability to perform activities of daily living. First,...
Due to the aging population and increase in the number of neurological injuries, the demand for physical therapy has increased. As a result, in recent years robotic devices have been introduced to address the neuro-rehabilitation needs and have been proved to augment the recovery process. Results from a preliminary assessment study on a planar reaching task are presented in this paper. H-Man, a novel...
Current robotic rehabilitation devices have a high cost-to-benefit ratio, which prevents their large scale adoption by the clinical rehabilitation community. This paper first presents H-Man, a low cost planar robot, as a quantitative assessment and training tool. This is followed by a preliminary study to investigate baseline performance measures for motor assessment during reaching tasks as a step...
This paper presents the results of a preliminary assessment study to investigate baseline performance measures and differences between control and stroke participants during reaching tasks in three directions. H-Man, planar robot is, used for this purpose. Thirteen healthy and two chronic stroke patients with upper limb motor impairment participated in the study. Assessment of performance was made...
The coordination of the upper limbs has been shown to be beneficial for post-stroke treatment. In virtual reality based rehabilitation, bimanual exercises can be performed by exploiting haptic rendering techniques that allow object manipulation with two haptic devices. Haptic interaction generally involves spherical end-effectors with invariant shapes. Furthermore, the position of the end-effectors...
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