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Assist-As-Needed Exoskeleton for Hand Joint Rehabilitation Based on Muscle Effort Detection
2021
Sensors
We used EMG signals acquired from four patients with post-stroke hand impairments for training machine learning models used to characterize muscle effort by classifying three muscular condition levels ...
Experimental results indicate the maximum variation on velocity was 0.7 mm/s, while the proposed control system effectively modulated the movements of the exoskeleton based on the EMG readings, keeping ...
Acknowledgments: We would like to thank the Brandenburgklinik Berlin-Brandenburg Hospital, Wandlitz, Germany, for support during the experiments with patients. ...
doi:10.3390/s21134372
pmid:34206714
fatcat:oeyec32sarcvnjsrfdcbw4ilku
Customized Interactive Robotic Treatment for Stroke: EMG-Triggered Therapy
2005
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering
A system for electromyographic (EMG) triggering of robot-assisted therapy (dubbed the EMG game) for stroke patients is presented. ...
Besides delivering customized robot-assisted therapy, the system can record signals that may be useful to better understand the process of recovery from stroke. ...
Experiments II and III were aimed at testing the EMG game under unassisted and assisted conditions (robot assistance off and on, respectively). ...
doi:10.1109/tnsre.2005.850423
pmid:16200756
pmcid:PMC2752646
fatcat:zgejoddvljee5f5fsfqqisz6ui
Robotic Rehabilitation and Multimodal Instrumented Assessment of Post-stroke Elbow Motor Functions—A Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol
2020
Frontiers in Neurology
Conclusions: This randomized controlled trial aims to validate an innovative instrumented methodology for clinical spasticity assessment and functional rehabilitation, relying on the precision and accuracy ...
Secondary outcomes will include biomechanical, muscular activity, and motor performance parameters extracted from instrumented assessments using the NEEM along with synchronous EMG recordings. ...
These criteria are echoed in the American Stroke Association's Guidelines on Stroke Rehabilitation (13) and are all fulfilled by the current RCT, with specific focus on the treatment and assessment of ...
doi:10.3389/fneur.2020.587293
pmid:33193052
pmcid:PMC7643017
fatcat:5dawhor52necpo3mnsmnzyxkpu
Biofeedback Signals for Robotic Rehabilitation: Assessment of Wrist Muscle Activation Patterns in Healthy Humans
2017
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering
Results indicate that a low-dimensional control scheme incorporating EMG biofeedback could be an effective add-on for robotic rehabilitative protocols seeking to improve impaired motor function in humans ...
For each trial, coefficients expressing the strength of each combination of modules and representing the underlying muscle recruitment, allowed for a highly reliable decoding of all experimental conditions ...
Indeed, the use of customized robotassisted therapy driven by EMG biofeedback has been explored and the results indicate an added rehabilitation benefit for stroke patients when compared to robotic assistance ...
doi:10.1109/tnsre.2016.2636122
pmid:28114024
fatcat:3esk746phrdm5fmuwhwuvgtzrq
Neural Coding for Effective Rehabilitation
2014
BioMed Research International
systems, and robot-assisted quantitative evaluation on the progress of rehabilitation programs. ...
Future rehabilitation would be more home-based, automatic, and self-served by patients. ...
Intelligent Rehabilitation Robots Based on EMG Coding Intelligent rehabilitation robots usually refer to the systems that can interact with the voluntary motor intentions of a user. ...
doi:10.1155/2014/286505
pmid:25258708
pmcid:PMC4167232
fatcat:jli4wj5bavagtcrfqygnleskxq
Subject-oriented overground walking pattern generation on a rehabilitation robot based on foot and pelvic trajectories
2011
Procedia IUTAM
A rehabilitation gait system has been developed to assist the subject-centric gait rehabilitation on overground walking. ...
Furthermore, the pelvic motion serves as compensation to fulfill those predescribed foot trajectory, while the joint angles for the robotic orthosis attached to the lower limb are calculated based on the ...
Technological University (NTU) for their supports provided throughout the tenure of the present work. ...
doi:10.1016/j.piutam.2011.04.012
fatcat:4lzftywdsvhkfjsikt4rwmyft4
Neuromechanical Biomarkers for Robotic Neurorehabilitation
2021
Frontiers in Neurorobotics
In this view, they could be finally used for enhancing the robot-assisted treatments. ...
One of the current challenges for translational rehabilitation research is to develop the strategies to deliver accurate evaluation, prediction, patient selection, and decision-making in the clinical practice ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors gracefully acknowledge Silvia Chiappalone for providing the graphics of Figure 2 . ...
doi:10.3389/fnbot.2021.742163
pmid:34776920
pmcid:PMC8579108
fatcat:2zosr2jawfddldei65fmidjh7q
Motor modules in robot-aided walking
2012
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
Results: The muscular activity of volunteers could be described by low dimensionality (4 modules), as for overground walking. ...
Methods: Non Negative Matrix Factorization was applied on surface electromyographic signals of 8 lower limb muscles of healthy subjects walking in gait robotic trainer at different walking velocities ( ...
For example, Hornby and colleagues [35] assessed that continuous sagittal plane assistance on robotic gait training administered to chronic stroke patients is not as effective as therapist-based training ...
doi:10.1186/1743-0003-9-76
pmid:23043818
pmcid:PMC3533908
fatcat:rvdwpu4p5rfd7hwm4w5qajkzou
Effects of robotic guidance on the coordination of locomotion
2013
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
This allows the design of robotic-aided rehabilitation strategies aimed at the modulation of motor modules, which are altered in stroke. ...
Exoskeleton robotic devices are now often used in the rehabilitation practice to assist physical therapy of individuals with neurological disorders. ...
We computed the total variability accounted for all muscles, conditions and gait sub-phases based on the number of motor modules extracted. ...
doi:10.1186/1743-0003-10-79
pmid:23870328
pmcid:PMC3724716
fatcat:yntj4qdp3ra6jfhmohfd3zm6xm
Effectiveness of Robot-Assisted Upper Limb Training on Spasticity, Function and Muscle Activity in Chronic Stroke Patients Treated With Botulinum Toxin: A Randomized Single-Blinded Controlled Trial
2019
Frontiers in Neurology
Training protocols lasted for 5 weeks (45 min/session, two sessions/week). Before and after rehabilitation, a blinded rater evaluated patients. ...
Conclusions: Robot-assisted training is as effective as conventional training on muscle tone reduction when combined with Botulinum toxin in chronic stroke patients with UL spasticity. ...
Two physiotherapists, one for each group, carried out the rehabilitation procedures. ...
doi:10.3389/fneur.2019.00041
pmid:30766508
pmcid:PMC6365972
fatcat:kpkpq26ljfewzcp66a4zcd5dpq
Biopotential Signal Monitoring Systems in Rehabilitation: A Review
2021
Sensors
The main contributions of this paper are (i) the presentation of interesting works in the biomedical area, mainly focusing on sensors and systems for physical rehabilitation and health monitoring between ...
Mostly, we focused our contribution in EMG signals to highlight its importance in rehabilitation context applications. ...
EMG in Sports Rehabilitation Surface EMG can evaluate the status of skeletal muscles, assisting in muscular training and rehabilitation. ...
doi:10.3390/s21217172
pmid:34770477
pmcid:PMC8587479
fatcat:sldiectsavfftha77kycn4x2ra
Multimodal adaptive interfaces for 3D robot-mediated upper limb neuro-rehabilitation: An overview of bio-cooperative systems
2016
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
. • A multimodal 3D robotic platform for upper limb rehabilitation of post stroke patients. • Mechatronic module for guaranteeing arm-weight support during therapy. a b s t r a c t Robot-mediated neuro-rehabilitation ...
Such module records patient biomechanical data through an unobtrusive, wearable sensory system, evaluates patient biomechanical state and updates robot control parameters for modifying level of assistance ...
This work was supported by the EU Project EC FP7-ICT-231143 ECHORD and by EU Project Horizon 2020 Programme, ICT-22-2014: Multimodal and Natural computer interaction Adaptive Multimodal Interfaces to Assist ...
doi:10.1016/j.robot.2016.08.012
fatcat:oucg3xb47zbezlnleuacoyvu5m
Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation in Rehabilitation of Movement Disorders: A Review Of Current Research
2010
Music Perception
Based on these physiological connections, a large number of clinical studies have researched the effectiveness of rhythm and music to produce functional change in motor therapy for stroke, Parkinson's ...
disease, traumatic brain injury, and other conditions. ...
Participants also showed a more balanced muscular activation pattern on EMG between the paretic and nonparetic limbs. ...
doi:10.1525/mp.2010.27.4.263
fatcat:nrnh2o66tjcu3ifceliygbtubi
Model Predictive Control for Human-Centred Lower Limb Robotic Assistance
[article]
2020
arXiv
pre-print
We introduce a model predictive control (MPC) architecture for lower limb exoskeletons centred around a fuzzy logic algorithm (FLA) identifying modes of assistance based on human involvement. ...
Results illustrate an objective approach to lower limb robotic assistance through on-the-fly transition between modes of movement, providing a new level of human-robot synergy for mobility assist and rehabilitation ...
Significant effort has been focused on synergising exoskeleton action for patients with the capacity to provide partial muscular efforts (e.g. elderly or stroke patients), for whom the exoskeleton complements ...
arXiv:2011.05079v1
fatcat:ihsltjs4crbe7gt22pzctnmaga
Experimental Protocol to Assess Neuromuscular Plasticity Induced by an Exoskeleton Training Session
2021
Methods and Protocols
Interfaces based on physiological signals, e.g., recorded by electroencephalography (EEG) and/or electromyography (EMG), could contribute to solving this technological challenge. ...
This protocol aims to: (1) quantify neuro-muscular plasticity induced by a single training session with a robotic exoskeleton on post-stroke people and on a group of age and sex-matched controls; (2) test ...
Determine optimal training parameters for individualized gait training (based on knowledge built on 1. and 2.).
4. ...
doi:10.3390/mps4030048
pmid:34287357
fatcat:gapa6wcwuretblg6wo42vv3ylm
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