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Muscle Synergy method has been proposed in the literature to provide a lower dimensional representation of motor commands from the central nervous system (CNS). Studies on post-stroke patients highlighted how features such as the minimum number of motor synergies accounting for most of the data variance correlate with impairments and motor function. In this study, we target healthy subjects to establish...
Spasticity is a common impairment following an upper motor neuron lesion in conditions such as stroke and brain injury. A clinical issue is how to best quantify and measure spasticity. Recently, research has been performed to develop new methods of spasticity quantification using various systems. This paper follows up on previous work taking a closer look at the role of transversal forces obtained...
Electronic systems based on body area networks can be used to monitor sports performance. These systems use sensors to acquire signals from the athlete while performing the exercises, and a communication system to transmit the data to a computer or smart phone to analyze it. That information can be used to evaluate sport performance quantitatively, prevent and treat injuries, and design personalized...
Day-long continuous monitoring requires stable sensors that can minimise the effects of drift and maintain high accuracy and precision over time. We have recently shown that our inertial motion tracking system can capture stable kinematic data, calibrated against ground-truth over a long period of time. However, for many clinical and daily life activities, it is also essential to monitor the muscle-activity...
Injury to a muscle or neuromuscular connections, resulting from events such as a minor stroke or car accident, can be detrimental to the quality of life of the victim or his or her families due to an increased load of expenses and time. The key to recovery and rehabilitation for such injuries is physical therapy, which can be expensive and time consuming, especially for low income families who may...
Injury to a muscle or neuromuscular connections, resulting from events such as a minor stroke or car accident, can be detrimental to the quality of life of the victim or his or her families due to an increased load of expenses and time. The key to recovery and rehabilitation for such injuries is physical therapy, which can be expensive and time consuming, especially for low income families who may...
Following the promotion of living quality and the implementation of the national health insurance program in Taiwan, the demand of research and development for localized medical modalities has become critical. With corporation with Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, the Medical Mechatronics Research Laboratory (MMRL) in Chang Gung University has been dedicated itself to the development of pivotal technologies...
Current methods for assessing the efficacy of treatments for Parkinson's disease (PD) rely on physician rated scores. These methods pose three major shortcomings: 1) the subjectivity of the assessments, 2) the lack of precision on the rating scale (6 discrete levels), and 3) the inability to assess symptoms except under very specific conditions and/or for very specific tasks. To address these shortcomings,...
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