What are this site's aims?
Submitted by Farshid Amirabd... on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 15:56This website provides basic means of gathering momentum and grouping current experts in the field of Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics. It is intended to encourage interaction between different disciplines involved in the full life cycle of assistive and rehabilitation robotics, from basic users, researchers and clinicians, ultimately to policy makers and commercial entities. Our definitive aim has been to gather momentum for engaging in joint research, nationally and internationally.
September 2009,
Dr Farshid Amirabdollahian
Article alert from JNER: The relation between neuromechanical parameters and Ashworth score in stroke patients
Submitted by Farshid Amirabd... on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 18:57Here is a link to a new article from JNER regarding relation between neuromechanical parameters and ashworth score in stroke patients.
http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/7/1/35
Journal of Physical Therapy: Quality-of-Life Change Associated With Robotic-Assisted Therapy to Improve Hand Motor Function in Patients With Subacute Stroke: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Submitted by Farshid Amirabd... on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 19:10Here is an interesting article from the journal of physical therapy:
http://ptjournal.apta.org/cgi/content/abstract/ptj.20090160v1
BioMed Central: Self-adaptive robot training of stroke survivors for continuous tracking movements
Submitted by Farshid Amirabd... on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 18:51And yet another good publication to read, authored by our Italian Colleagues at UNIGE, TURIN, ART Rehabilitation and Educational Centre and IIT and published in BioMed Central JNER:
BioMed Central: An explorative, cross-sectional study into abnormal muscular coupling during reach in chronic stroke patients
Submitted by Farshid Amirabd... on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 18:43Here is another new publication from BioMed central JNER:
KT-Equal monograph: what is the place of assistive technologies in the mainstream market?
Submitted by Farshid Amirabd... on Sat, 03/13/2010 - 12:46Here is an excellent contribution from KT-Equal:
http://www.sparc.ac.uk/media/downloads/executivesummaries/assistive_tech...
BioMed Central: Gait symmetry and regularity in transfemoral amputees assessed by trunk accelerations
Submitted by Farshid Amirabd... on Sat, 03/13/2010 - 11:38Here is another article from JNER:
BioMed Central: User-centered virtual environment design for virtual rehabilitation
Submitted by Farshid Amirabd... on Sat, 03/13/2010 - 11:36Here is the latest article from JNER:
http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/7/1/11
The New Jersey Institute of Technology Robot-Assisted Virtual Rehabilitation (NJIT-RAVR) system for children with cerebral palsy: a feasibility study
Submitted by Farshid Amirabd... on Thu, 11/19/2009 - 10:21You might be interested to read the latest article from the Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation. Please follow this link:
http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/6/1/40
Autonomous Systems – Challenges, Developments and Opportunities (Nov 26 & 27)
Submitted by Farshid Amirabd... on Wed, 11/11/2009 - 13:03Overview
The capabilities of Autonomous Systems are growing: they can detonate unexploded bombs; provide care for the elderly and infirm; collect soil samples from hostile environments; and carry out significant surgical operations. The market for Autonomous Systems sector is poised for considerable growth; fuelled by the challenges of caring for a growing elderly population, increasing security threats to society, and coping with skills shortages.
