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 …

Current health services are struggling to provide optimal rehabilitation therapy to victims of
stroke. This has motivated researchers to explore the use of robotic devices to provide …

Since the late 1990s, there has been a burst of research on robotic devices for poststroke
rehabilitation. Robot-mediated therapy produced improvements on recovery of motor …

Compared with traditional rigid robots, soft robots have high flexibility, low stiffness, and
adaptability to unstructured environments, and as such have great application potential in …

Robotic orthoses, or exoskeletons, have the potential to provide effective rehabilitation while
overcoming the availability and cost constraints of therapists. However, current orthosis …

Research on the lower limb exoskeleton for rehabilitation have developed rapidly to meet
the need of the aging population. The rehabilitation exoskeleton system is a wearable man …

Upper-limb impairment after stroke is caused by weakness, loss of individual joint control,
spasticity, and abnormal synergies. Upper-limb movement frequently involves abnormal …

The aim of this article is to present a survey on applications of Pneumatic Artificial Muscles
(PAMs). PAMs are highly non-linear pneumatic actuators where their elongation is …

The LIMPACT is an exoskeleton developed to be used in identifying the reflex properties of
the arm in stroke survivors. Information on joint reflexes helps in designing optimal patient …

Robot-assisted rehabilitation has become a new mainstream trend for the treatment of stroke
patients with movement disability. Pneumatic muscle (PM) is one of the most promising …