Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

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Multi-directional Ankle Impedance During Standing Postures
Guilherme A. Ribeiro, Lauren N. Knop, Mo Rastgaar
In this study, we estimated the multi-directional ankle mechanical impedance in two degrees-of-freedom (DOF) during standing, and determined how the stiffness, damping, and inertia vary with ankle angle and ankle torque at different postures... Read more
Posted on 21 SEP 2020
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Can mHealth Technology Help Mitigate the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Catherine P. Adans-Dester, Stacy Bamberg, Francesco Bertacchi, Brian Caulfield, Kara Chappie, Danilo Demarchi, M. Kelley Erb, Juan Estrada, Eric Fabara, Michael Freni, E. Karl Friedl, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Geoffrey Gill, Mark S. Greenberg, Reed W. Hoyt, Emil Jovanov, Christoph Kanzler, Dina Katabi, Meredith Kernan, Colleen Kigin, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Steffen Leonhardt, Nigel Hamilton Lovell, Jose Mantilla, Thomas H. McCoy, Nell Meosky Luo, Glenn A. Miller, John Moore, Derek O'Keeffe, Jeffrey Palmer, Federico Parisi, Shyamal Patel, Ming Jack Po, Benito L. Pugliese, Thomas Quatieri, Tauhidur Rahman, Nathan Ramasarma, John A. Rogers, Guillermo U. Ruiz-Esparza, Stefano Sapienza, Gregory Schiurring, Lee Schwamm, Hadi Shafiee, Sara Kelly Silacci, Nathaniel M. Sims, Tanya Talkar, William J. Tharion, James A. Toombs, Christopher Uschnig, Gloria Vergara, Paul Wacnik, May D. Wang, James Welch, Lina Williamson, Ross Zafonte, Adrian Zai, Yuan-Ting Zhang, Guillermo J. Tearney, Rushdy Ahmad, David R. Walt, Paolo Bonato
Goal: The aim of the study herein reported was to review mobile health (mHealth) technologies and explore their use to monitor and mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A Task Force was assembled by recruiting individuals with expertise... Read more
Posted on 17 AUG 2020
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Defining the Relationship Between Compressive Stress and Tissue Trauma During Laparoscopic Surgery Using Human Large Intestine
Amanda Farah Khan, Matthew Kenneth Macdonald, Catherine Streutker, Corwyn Rowsell, James Drake, Teodor Grantcharov
      Excessive magnitudes of compressive stress exerted on gastrointestinal tissues can lead to pathological scar tissue or adhesion formation, bleeding, inflammation or even death from bowel perforation and sepsis. It is currently unknown however, at exactly what magnitude of compressive stress... Read more
Posted on 20 AUG 2019
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Enhancing Mobility With Quasi-Passive Variable Stiffness Exoskeletons
Amanda Sutrisno, David J. Braun
  Shoes were invented to provide user comfort using rubber soles, despite marginal improvement in human mobility. Unlike shoes, current lower-limb exoskeletons use fixed stiffness springs to store and recycle energy to improve mobility. However, the maximum kinetic energy a human... Read more
Posted on 26 MAR 2019
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Mining Within-Trial Oscillatory Brain Dynamics to Address the Variability of Optimized Spatial Filters
Andreas Meinel, Henrich Kolkhorst, Michael Tangermann
   Data-driven spatial filtering algorithms optimize scores, such as the contrast between two conditions to extract oscillatory brain signal components. Most machine learning approaches for the filter estimation, however, disregard within-trial temporal dynamics and are extremely sensitive to changes in training... Read more
Posted on 26 MAR 2019
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Design and Development of a Portable Exoskeleton for Hand Rehabilitation
Duojin Wang, Qingyun Meng, Qiaoling Meng, Xinwei Li, Hongliu Yu
     Improvement in hand function to promote functional recovery is one of the major goals of stroke rehabilitation. This paper introduces a newly developed exoskeleton for hand rehabilitation with a user-centered design concept, which integrates the requirements of practical use, mechanical... Read more
Posted on 7 DEC 2018
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Shear Waves Reveal Viscoelastic Changes in Skeletal Muscles after Hemispheric Stroke
Ghulam Rasool, Allison B. Wang, William Z. Rymer, Sabrina S. M. Lee
    We investigated alterations in material properties such as elasticity and viscoelasticity of stroke-affected muscles using ultrasound induced shear waves and mechanical models. We used acoustic radiation force to generate shear waves along fascicles of biceps muscles and measured their propagation... Read more
Posted on 16 OCT 2018
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Feedback Control of Functional Electrical Stimulation for 2D Arm Reaching Movements
Reza Sharif Razavian, Borna Ghannadi, Naser Mehrabi, Mark Charlet, John McPhee
     Functional electrical stimulation (FES) can be used as a neuroprosthesis in which muscles are stimulated by electrical pulses to compensate for the loss of voluntary movement control. Modulating the stimulation intensities to reliably generate movements is a challenging control problem.... Read more
Posted on 16 OCT 2018
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A Robotic System for Adaptive Training and Function Assessment of Forelimb Retraction in Mice
Maria Pasquini, Stefano Lai, Cristina Spalletti, Marina Cracchiolo, Sara Conti, Alessandro Panarese, Matteo Caleo, Silvestro Micera
        Rodent models are decisive for translational research in healthy and pathological conditions of motor function thanks to specific similarities with humans. Here, we present an upgraded version of the M-Platform, a robotic device previously designed to train mice during forelimb... Read more
Posted on 19 SEP 2018
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Chest Compression Quality in a Newborn Manikin. A Randomized Crossover Trial
Anne Lee Solevåg, Po-Yin Cheung, Elliott Li, Sarah Zhenchun Xue, Megan O'Reilly, Bo Fu, Bin Zheng, Georg Schmölzer
        Abstract The objective of this study was to examine changes in applied force and rate of chest compression (CC) during 5 min of CC with a target CC rate of 90/min (CC90) or 120/min (CC120) with and without metronome guidance during... Read more
Posted on 10 SEP 2018