The purpose of this review is to provide a comprehensive approach for assessing the upper
extremity (UE) after stroke. First, common UE impairments and how to assess them are …

Mobile health tools that enable clinicians and researchers to monitor the type, quantity, and
quality of everyday activities of patients and trial participants have long been needed to …

Objective: Motor impairment after stroke has been related to infarct size, infarct location, and
integrity of motor tracts. To determine the value of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) as a …

Therapies for motor recovery after stroke or traumatic brain injury are still not satisfactory. To
date the best approach seems to be the intensive physical therapy. However the results are …

Background Single camera markerless motion capture has the potential to facilitate at home
movement assessment due to the ease of setup, portability, and affordable cost of the …

Several recent studies have indicated that upper extremity injuries are classified as a top
common workplace injury. Therefore, upper extremity rehabilitation has become a leading …

Background and Purpose—Studies on adult stroke patients have demonstrated functional
changes in cortical excitability, metabolic rate, or blood flow after motor therapy, measures …

Background Although there is a great deal of success in rehabilitative robotics applied to
patient recovery post stroke, most of the research to date has dealt with providing physical …

Background The aim of constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) is to promote use of a
limb that is functionally impaired after a stroke. In one form of CIMT to treat upper limb …

Background Functional limitation of the upper extremities is common in patients with stroke.
An upper-extremity measure with sound psychometric properties is indispensable for clinical …