The number of patients with knee impairments caused by a stroke, spinal cord injury, post-
polio, injury, osteoarthritis, or other related diseases is increasing worldwide. Robotic …

The successful motor rehabilitation of stroke patients requires early intensive and task-
specific therapy. A recent Cochrane Review, although based on a limited number of …

Until today it is not entirely clear how humans interact with automated gait rehabilitation
devices and how we can, based on that interaction, maximize the effectiveness of these …

In the research field of robot-assisted gait rehabilitation there is increased focus on the
improvement of physical human–robot interaction by means of high-performance actuator …

The goal of this paper is to address a topic that is rarely investigated in the literature of
technology‐assisted motor rehabilitation, that is, the integration of auditory feedback in the …

Robot-assisted rehabilitation of gait still faces many challenges, one of which is improving
physical human-robot interaction. The use of pleated pneumatic artificial muscles to power a …

Background This paper presents the results of a set of experiments in which we used
continuous auditory feedback to augment motor training exercises. This feedback modality is …

A multi-limb exercise machine and method that includes a plurality of user-movable input
components, an input measurement device associated with each of the input components, a …

This paper presents the kinematic design of a single degree-of-freedom exoskeleton
mechanism: a planar eight-bar mechanism for finger curling. The mechanism is part of a …

Reducing the impact of stroke on the independence of elderly patients during daily life is
becoming a primary societal goal in developed countries owing to population aging and to …