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Neuromusculoskeletal injuries including osteoarthritis, stroke, spinal cord injury, and traumatic brain injury affect roughly 19% of the U.S. adult population. Standardized interventions have produced suboptim...
Children with cerebral palsy (CP) experience significant mobility and balance impairments. Non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS), including transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and repetitive transcr...
Detecting Foot Strike and Foot Off events in human gait, which is cyclic yet variable, consistently requires expert correction. This subjective correction can reduce spatiotemporal parameters, joint kinematic ...
Gait quality indices, such as the Gillette Gait Index or Gait Profile Score (GPS), can provide clinicians with objective, straightforward measures to quantify gait pathology and monitor changes over time. Howe...
Persons with chronic stroke (PwCS) exhibit impaired paretic propulsion generation. Consequently, PwCS walk slower than healthy peers and rely more on their non-paretic leg, leading to propulsion asymmetry. How...
Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a prevalent chronic disease worldwide, and traditional treatment methods lack personalized adjustment for individual patient differences and cannot meet the needs of personalized t...
The swift and accurate identification of motor unit spike trains (MUSTs) from surface electromyography (sEMG) is essential for enabling real-time control in neural interfaces. However, the existing sEMG decomp...
Evaluation studies on active microprocessor-controlled knees (AMPK) in individuals with unilateral transfemoral amputation (TFA) are lacking in the literature. Furthermore, research on user accommodation to AM...
Stroboscopic vision (SV), known for providing intermittent visual input, has been recently integrated into postural training to improve proprioceptive awareness. This research examined the impact of SV on cort...
Muscle weakness and contractures cause gait deficits in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) but their relative contributions are poorly understood and hence it is unclear whether contractures shoul...
Dance is a rich artistic expression that combines intricate human movements with music, emotion, and cultural elements. However, the analysis of complex dance movements poses significant challenges because of ...
Individuals with a clinically complete spinal cord injury are unable to stand independently without external assistance. Studies have shown the combination of spinal cord epidural stimulation (scES) targeted f...
Lower limb amputation is a disabling condition with serious psychological, physical, and functional consequences. The adaptation of a prosthetic device can either mitigate or exacerbate these effects. Although...
Effective motor task execution relies on precise muscle coordination, which is often disrupted after a stroke, leading to impaired motor functions. Post-stroke, alterations in intermuscular coordination, inclu...
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a popular approach to augment the effects of neurorehabilitation. Most studies stimulated the ipsilesional primary motor cortex (iM1); nonetheless, the success...
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) hold significant potential for post-stroke motor recovery, yet active movement-based BCIs face limitations in generalization due to inter-subject variability. This study invest...
Older individuals are at risk of falling. Assistive devices like rollators help to reduce that risk, especially by compensating for decreased leg muscle strength and balance problems. Paradoxically, rollators ...
Motor rehabilitation is a therapeutic process to facilitate functional recovery in people with spinal cord injury (SCI). However, its efficacy is limited to areas with remaining sensorimotor function. Spinal c...
To investigate which brain activity frequency of electroencephalogram (EEG)-neurofeedback training (NFT) was the most effective for enhancing working memory (WM) and episodic memory (EM) in healthy participant...
Telerehabilitation allows patients to engage in therapy away from healthcare facilities, often in the comfort of their homes. Studies have suggested that it can effectively improve motor and cognitive function...
Stroke is a leading cause of disability worldwide, significantly impairing upper limb (UL) function and reducing patients’ ability to perform activities of daily living (ADL) and quality of life (QoL). Virtual...
We have created a groundbreaking telerehabilitation system known as Tele BCI-FES. This innovative system merges brain-computer interface (BCI) and functional electrical stimulation (FES) technologies to rehabi...
Limitations in upper limb prosthesis function and lack of sensory feedback are major contributors to high prosthesis abandonment rates. Peripheral nerve stimulation and intramuscular recording can restore touc...
Hemiplegic gait after a stroke can result in a decreased gait speed and asymmetrical gait pattern. Normal gait patterns and speed are typically the ultimate goals of gait function in stroke rehabilitation. The...
Diabetes mellitus is a highly burdensome metabolic disorder, affecting over 100 million people worldwide and leading to numerous complications. Among these, diabetic neuropathy is one of the most common, with ...
This review proposes an innovative closed-loop rehabilitation strategy that integrates multiple subdomains of stroke science to address the global challenge of upper-limb dyskinesia post-stroke. Despite advanc...
Vestibular rehabilitation uses multisensory balance exercises to optimize the integration and weighting of sensory inputs, including visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive signals. Head-mounted displays (HMDs)...
Oscillating Field Stimulation (OFS) is an emerging therapeutic approach for spinal cord injury (SCI) that is currently undergoing extensive investigation in preclinical in vivo studies. However, there has yet ...
Stroke is a serious cerebrovascular disease, and rehabilitation following the acute phase is particularly crucial. Not all rehabilitation outcomes are favorable, highlighting the necessity for personalized reh...
Stroke results in substantial long-term disability, necessitating effective recovery interventions. This study explored the effects of multi-channel transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on hemodynami...
Stroke often results in gait dysfunction, impairing daily activities and quality of life. Overground robotic exoskeletons hold promise for post-stroke rehabilitation. This study primarily aimed to assess the s...
Vestibular deficits are common and debilitating. Many patients do not achieve satisfactory resolution of their symptoms with standard rehabilitation techniques. This study seeks to measure changes in computeri...
Although deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN-DBS) induces motor benefits in people with Parkinson’s disease (PwPD), its effect on motor axial symptoms (e.g., postural instability, trunk post...
Robotic technology is expected to transform rehabilitation settings, by providing precise, repetitive, and task-specific interventions, thereby potentially improving patients’ clinical outcomes. Artificial int...
In recent years, numerous robotic devices, together with allied technologies, have been developed to support rehabilitation, both in research settings and industry. Although robotic-assisted rehabilitation and...
Pharmacological, surgical and physical therapies ameliorate motor and non-motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Unfortunately, the progression of the disease induces deterioration in daily activities, es...
Electromagnetic field-based neuroregulation technology is a crucial technique for treating central nervous system and peripheral nervous system disorders. However, the use of invasive electrodes has unavoidabl...
Multiple sclerosis (MS) impairs balance control, affecting mobility and quality of life. Virtual reality (VR) offers a novel way to study balance mechanisms and potential rehabilitation. This review examines b...
The original article was published in Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2024 21:158
The ability to start and stop locomotion in response to different situations is an essential survival strategy in mammals. Mammalian locomotion is controlled by central pattern generators in the spinal cord, w...
To investigate the relationship between the biomechanical characteristics of lower extremity and anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) loading during single-leg landing in patients with chronic ankle instability (C...
Unilateral Cerebral Palsy (UCP) is a clinical condition which mainly involves the movement and muscle tone of one side of the body, often impacting the general manual function. While there are some clinical as...
Variability in motor recovery after stroke represents a major challenge in its understanding and management. While functional MRI has been used to unravel interactions between stroke motor function and clinica...
Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) is a non-invasive technique that modulates neural oscillations, yet its specific effects on cortical excitability are not well-understood. This study investi...
Individuals with lower-limb amputations are highly dependent upon prostheses to perform daily activities and adapt to environmental changes. Transtibial prosthesis (TTP) users in particular, experience greater...
Neurofeedback (NF), an advanced technique enabling self-regulation of brain activity, was used to enhance upper limb motor recovery in chronic stroke survivors. A comparison was conducted between the efficacy ...
Custom wheelchairs, tailored to users’ unique needs, have gained increasing attention because of their potential to increase mobility, comfort, and overall quality of life for the people using them. Employing ...
For producing isometric contractions, spatially distributed sequential stimulation (SDSS) has been demonstrated to be superior to conventional single electrode stimulation (SES) in terms of fatigue reduction a...
Sensor-based technologies have been widely used in fall risk assessment. To enhance the model's robustness and reliability, it is crucial to analyze and discuss the factors contributing to the misclassificatio...
In recent years, functional electrical stimulation (FES) has become a common intervention for stroke survivors to correct foot drop and improve gait biomechanics. While the orthotic effects of adaptive FES sys...
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