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 …

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 …

Annually, 15 million people worldwide suffer a stroke, and 5 million are left permanently
disabled. A stroke is usually caused when a blood clot blocks a vessel in the brain and acts …

The number of disabled individuals due to stroke is increasing day by day and is projected
to continue increasing at an alarming rate in United States. But the current amount of health …

Iterative learning control schemes are used to apply functional electrical stimulation to the
triceps of unimpaired subjects in order to perform trajectory tracking tasks. The subjects …

Over the last 30 years, scientific and technological progress has boosted the development of
medical devices that can assist patients and support medical staff. With regard to the …

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 …

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 …

Despite significant recent interest in the identification of electrically stimulated muscle
models, current methods are based on underlying models and identification techniques that …

This paper presents a study on parameterisation methods for airfoil shape optimisation
within a CAD-based design optimisation framework. The objective of the paper is to study …