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Effect of dorsal capsular imbrication on intraoperative DRUJ instability following arthroscopic TFCC repair surgery
BackgroundTo assess the clinical outcomes and identify the ideal indication for implementing dorsal distal radioulnar joint (DRUJ) capsular...
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Evaluation of the clinical efficacy of using an inverted triangular cannulated compression screw in combination with positive or negative buttress reduction for the healing of femoral neck fractures
ObjectiveWe aimed to compare the clinical efficacy of inverted triangular cannulated compression screws combined with Gotfried positive or negative...
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11 Safety Evaluation Method of Rehabilitation Robots
An aged society comes soon. Human-care robots must be realized to nurse aged and disabled persons. Human-care robot will need to work around elderly...
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2 Rehabilitation Robotics from Past to Present – A Historical Perspective
Popular culture presents the image of a robot as a mechanical, humanoid device, often evil in intent. Those with a slightly more informed technical...
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26 STRING-MAN: A Novel Wire Robot for Gait Rehabilitation
This paper presents a novel robotic prototype for advanced gait rehabilitation. This system integrates sophisticated robotic technology with control...
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4 Welfare-Oriented Service Robotic Systems: Intelligent Sweet Home & KARES II
Utopia – it would be a society where the welfare of the people is properly guaranteed. In the society, each constituent would live his/her life with...
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13 Usability of an Assistive Robot Manipulator: Toward a Quantitative User Evaluation
This chapter describes our research activity on the integration of a robotic arm in the environment of persons with disabilities. People who have...
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10 A Safety Strategy for Rehabilitation Robots
It was reported previously that many MANUS users thought that the MANUS was useful, but not useful enough to gain totally independent lifestyles for...
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14 Processes for Obtaining a “Manus” (ARM) Robot within the Netherlands
This chapter describes both the current (Anno Domini 2003) and future processes of prescribing the Assistive Robotic Manipulator (ARM, also known as...
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12 Risk Reduction Mechanisms for Safe Rehabilitation Robots
Safety is one of the most important features of rehabilitation robots. However, strategies for safe rehabilitation robots are not yet clarified. A...
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5 “FRIEND” – An Intelligent Assistant in Daily Life
The research and development in the field of rehabilitation robots produced a multiplicity of rehabilitation robots available as off-the- shelf...
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6 GIVING-A-HAND System: The Development of a Task-Specific Robot Appliance
The rapidly changing demographics in industrialized nations create a pressing need for effective personal assistive aids that appeal to elderly and...
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Development of a novel approach for restoration of the meniscus using silk-elastin in a rabbit meniscus injury model
BackgroundLimited healing potential of the meniscus remains a burden for the successful repair of meniscus injuries in the orthopaedic fields....
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Changes in the anteroposterior position of the femur relative to the tibia impact patient satisfaction in total knee arthroplasty
BackgroundIn this study, we aimed to investigate the preoperative and postoperative anteroposterior position (AP) of the femur relative to the tibia...
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1 Advances in Human-Friendly Robotic Technologies for Movement Assistance/Movement Restoration for People with Disabilities
Rehabilitation robots (RR) are expected to play an important role toward the independent life of older persons and persons with disabilities. Such...
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22 A Gentle/S Approach to Robot Assisted Neuro-Rehabilitation
Movement disorders (MD) include a group of neurological disorders that involve neuromotor systems. MD can result in several abnormalities ranging...
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23 Wire Driven Robots for Rehabilitation
In the last decades many attempts were made to employ robots or automatic mechanisms in the field of rehabilitation. In particular, orthopaedic...
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9 Enhancing the Usability of the MANUS Manipulator by Using Visual Servoing
Controlling MANUS, a wheelchair-mounted manipulator, can put a high cognitive load on the end user. Visual servoing techniques can help to reduce...
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7 Cooperative Welfare Robot System Using Hand Gesture Instructions
This paper explains the cooperative work system between manipulators and humans using hand gesture instructions. The goal of our system is that the...
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15 Experimental Analysis of the Proprioceptive and Exteroceptive Sensors of an Underactuated Prosthetic Hand
The development of a prosthetic hand able to replicate as much as possible the gras** and sensory features of the natural hand represents an...