Exoskeletons in Rehabilitation Robotics
Tremor Suppression
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Immediate effects of a controllable knee ankle foot orthosis for functional compensation of gait in patients with proximal leg weakness
Application of intermittent control of the knee joint stiffness in a knee ankle foot orthosis (KAFO) during gait is proposed. The approach combines inertial sensors and an actuator system in order to apply com...
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Open AccessExtraction of user's navigation commands from upper body force interaction in walker assisted gait
The advances in technology make possible the incorporation of sensors and actuators in rollators, building safer robots and extending the use of walkers to a more diverse population. This paper presents a new ...
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Upper Limb Exoskeleton for Tremor Suppression: Cognitive HR Interaction
This book describes a new method for tremor suppression by means of a wearable exoskeleton that estimates in realtime the amount of biomechanical load to be applied. Therefore, it is in this field of rehabilit...
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Upper Limb Exoskeleton for Tremor Suppression: Validation
This chapter introduces the protocol for the validatation of the exoskeleton and control strategies introduced in previous chapters. This protocol is a set of tasks defined according the clinical criterias. In...
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An EEG-Based Design for the Online Detection of Movement Intention
The development of EEG-based wearable technologies for real-life environments has experienced an increasing interest over the last years. During activities of daily living, these systems need to be able to dis...
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Introduction: Exoskeletons in Rehabilitation Robotics
Rehabilitation Robotics has been defined as the combination of industrial robotics and medical rehabilitation, thus encompassing many areas, including mechanical and electrical engineering, biomedical engineer...
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Pathological Tremor Management
A great deal of effort has been devoted in the past decades in the generic area of tremor management. Specific topics of modelling for objective classification of pathological tremor out of kinematics and phys...
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Upper Limb Exoskeleton for Tremor Suppression: Physical HR Interaction
The scientific and medical community is becoming more and more interested in the so-called Rehabilitation Robotics. Rehabilitation Robotics has been envisioned as technology for the restoration and functional ...
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Summary, Conclusions and Upcoming Research
This book started with an introduction to Rehabilitation Robotics and, in particular, of Rehabilitation Wearable Robots of which Exoskeletons are very interesting examples. A historical note that dated back to...
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Tremor Suppression Using Electromyography and Surface Sensory Electrical Stimulation
Functional electrical stimulation has been tested previously for the suppression of pathological tremor. Typically, the tremor is detected using motion sensors, and the stimulation is delivered supra motor thr...
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Does Anode Position and Electrode Impedance Affect Muscle Selectivity in Upper Limb sFES?
Muscle selectivity during sFES in upper limb is an issue because of the presence of the “overflow” phenomenon. Surface electrodes array can augment muscle selectivity by generating an irregular electric field ...
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Open AccessA neuroprosthesis for tremor management through the control of muscle co-contraction
Pathological tremor is the most prevalent movement disorder. Current treatments do not attain a significant tremor reduction in a large proportion of patients, which makes tremor a major cause of loss of quali...
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Detection of Common Synaptic Inputs Shared by Populations of Motor Neurons Innervating Different Muscles: Methodology and Considerations for Neuroprosthetic Treatment of Tremor
A large proportion of tremor patients do not benefit from any treatment. This is partly motivated by the fact that current therapies may not be sufficiently specific because the pathophysiology of each type of...
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Assistive Robots for Physical and Cognitive Rehabilitation in Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy (CP) is one of the most severe disabilities in childhood and makes heavy demands on health, educational, and social services as well as on families and children themselves. The most frequently c...
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Evaluation of Cervical Posture Improvement of Children with Cerebral Palsy After Physical Therapy with a HCI Based on Head Movements and Serious Videogames
This paper presents the preliminary results of a novel rehabilitation therapy for cervical and trunk control of children with cerebral palsy (CP). The therapy is based on the use of an inertial sensor that wil...
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Open AccessAdvances in selective activation of muscles for non-invasive motor neuroprostheses
Non-invasive neuroprosthetic (NP) technologies for movement compensation and rehabilitation remain with challenges for their clinical application. Two of those major challenges are selective activation of musc...
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Neural Control of Muscles in Tremor Patients
Essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease cause abnormal oscillatory activity in a variety of brain structures that is transmitted to spinal motoneurons and generates tremor. Because the motoneuron pool integra...
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Wearable Robotic Walker for Gait Rehabilitation and Assistance in Patients with Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral Palsy (CP) is the most common cause of permanent serious physical disability in childhood. New strategies are needed to help promote, maintain, and rehabilitate the functional capacity of children wit...
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Non-supervised Feature Selection: Evaluation in a BCI for Single-Trial Recognition of Gait Preparation/Stop
Is presented a non-supervised method for feature selection based on similarity index, which is applied in a brain-computer interface (BCI) to recognize gait preparation/stops. Maximal information compression i...
