Life expectancy in most countries has been increasing continually over the several few
decades thanks to significant improvements in medicine, public health, as well as personal …

This review discusses the advancements that are needed to enhance the effects of electrical
stimulation for restoring or assisting movement in humans with an injury/disease of the …

Recent advances in the field of neural rehabilitation, facilitated through technological
innovation and improved neurophysiological knowledge of impaired motor control, have …

Neuromuscular stimulation has been used as one potential rehabilitative treatment option to
restore motor function and improve recovery in patients with paresis. Especially stroke …

Neurological conditions like hemiplegia following stroke or tetraplegia following spinal cord
injury, result in a massive compromise in motor function. Each of the two conditions can …

Wrist rehabilitation is needed to help post-stroke and post-surgery patients recover from
wrist fracture or injury. Traditional rehabilitation training is conducted by a therapist in a …

Despite distal arm impairment after brain injury is an extremely disabling consequence of
neurological damage, most studies on robotic therapy are mainly focused on recovery of …

Functional electrical stimulation (FES) activates nerves using electrical currents, and is
widely used in medical applications to assist movement of patients with central nervous …

Myoelectric prostheses are successfully controlled using muscle electrical activity, thereby
restoring lost motor functions. However, the somatosensory feedback from the prosthesis to …

Stroke leads to significant impairment in upper limb (UL) function. The goal of rehabilitation
is the reestablishment of pre-stroke motor stroke skills by stimulating neuroplasticity. Among …