The existing shortage of therapists and caregivers assisting physically disabled individuals
at home is expected to increase and become serious problem in the near future. The patient …

Stroke incidence is increasing more rapidly in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)
than in High-Income Countries (HICs), but LMICs are not well organized to provide …

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 …

As the number of patients with impaired nerves is continuously increasing day by day
around the globe, rehabilitation training by the physical therapist is more time-consuming …

In this paper we present a universal haptic drive (UHD), a device that enables rehabilitation
of either arm (“ARM” mode) or wrist (“WRIST” mode) movement in two degrees-of-freedom …

Background: Stroke is a major contributor to the reduced ability to carry out activities of daily
living (ADL) post cerebral infarct. There has been a major focus on understanding and …

Goniometry has been widely used to analyze human motion. The goniometer is a tool to
measure the angular change on systems of a single degree of freedom. However, it is …

In recent decades, many researchers have focused on the design and development of
exoskeletons. Several strategies have been proposed to develop increasingly more efficient …

Rehabilitation programs promote functional recovery among disabled individuals. Robot-
aided rehabilitation is a systematic way to use robotics systems for rehabilitation purposes …

Wrist rehabilitation robots are essential for assisting patients with stoke or wrist injuries.
Such devices compensate for deficiencies in manual rehabilitation training, and reduce the …