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Ana Teresa Gabriel, Cláudia Quaresma and Pedro Vieira
Back pain is regularly associated with biomechanical changes in the spine. The traditional methods to assess spine biomechanics use ionising radiation. Vertebral Metrics (VM) is a non-invasive instrument developed by the authors in previous research that...
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Abraham López-Vivancos, Noelia González-Gálvez, Francisco Javier Orquín-Castrillón, Rodrigo Gomes de Souza Vale and Pablo Jorge Marcos-Pardo
Bodybuilding training professionals and users who use bench press (BP) should be aware of the implication in choosing another exercise, either to improve muscle activation or to maintain activation levels while seeking another parallel objective. Dependi...
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Ji-Yong Jung and Jung-Ja Kim
A rollator, one of the most widely used among walking assistance devices, can assist the elderly with stable walking in their daily lives. In this study, we investigated how the structural characteristics of two types of rollators affect the upper and lo...
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Ahmet Emre Öçal, Huseyin Lekesiz and Sevda Telli Çetin
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders are one of the main problems reducing the life quality of workers. Occupational exoskeletons are one of the most promising solutions for solving this issue. In this study, an innovative and passive upper-extremity e...
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Christine Linnenberg, Benjamin Reimeir, Robert Eberle and Robert Weidner
Occupational shoulder exoskeletons need to provide meaningful torques to achieve the desired support, thereby high pressures can occur within the physical human?machine interface (pHMI) of exoskeletons that may lead to discomfort, pain, or soft tissue in...
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Tadashi Yamamoto and Toyohiro Hamaguchi
In this study, we aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a brain robot in rehabilitation that combines motor imagery (MI), robotic motor assistance, and electrical stimulation. Thirteen in-patients with severe post-stroke hemiplegia underwent electroence...
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Valentín González-Alonso, María del Carmen Usero-Pérez, Raquel Seguido Chacón, Alicia Gómez de la Fuente, Jonathan Cortés-Martín, Raquel Rodríguez-Blanque and Juan Carlos Sánchez-García
Among the main preventable causes of death in the area of operations is external exsanguinating hemorrhage in the extremities, hence the importance of the tourniquet as a therapeutic tool in this type of injury and, therefore, of the training of personne...
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Shigeru Obayashi and Hirotaka Saito
Neuromodulators at the periphery, such as neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), have been developed as add-on tools to regain upper extremity (UE) paresis after stroke, but this recovery has often been limited. To overcome these limits, novel stra...
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Heather A. Feldner, Christina Papazian, Keshia M. Peters, Claire J. Creutzfeldt and Katherine M. Steele
Arm recovery varies greatly among stroke survivors. Wearable surface electromyography (sEMG) sensors have been used to track recovery in research; however, sEMG is rarely used within acute and subacute clinical settings. The purpose of this case study wa...
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Zaixiang Pang, Tongyu Wang, Zhanli Wang, Junzhi Yu, Zhongbo Sun and Shuai Liu
Nowadays, patients with mild and moderate upper limb paralysis caused by cerebral apoplexy are uncomfortable with autonomous rehabilitation. In this paper, according to the ?rope + toothed belt? generalized rope drive design scheme, we design a utility m...
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