A body-powered functional upper limb orthosis.

Hybrid Adaptive Low Cost Upper Limb Support Device for FES Stroke Rehabilitation

A novel design of a low cost non-powered orthosis device for home-based upper limb stroke rehabilitation is proposed. The design allows the device to be integrated with a dual robotic and electrical stimulation control scheme, to thereby enable full exploitation of the motor relearning principles which underpin both robotic therapy and Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) based stroke rehabi...

Biomechanics of Upper Limb Orthoses

INTRODUCTION Functional impairment of [parts of] the upper limb has many different expressions. Sound biomechanical analysis is at the basis of the management of the physical challenges involved. An outline of the basics of a mechanical systems approach is presented below. Orthoses are among the many treatment options for upper limb impairments. An orthosis can be defined as a mechanical constr...

CONTROL OF A POWERED, GRAVITY-BALANCED ORTHOSIS FOR CHILDREN WITH LIMITED UPPER LIMB STRENGTH by

Should External Powered Orthoses be Used by Paraplegic Subjects or Not?

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a damage to spinal cord that results in loss of function, mobility and sensation below the level at which the spinal cord has been injured. The incidence of this disorder varies between 12.7 and 59 new cases per million each year (1). These subjects used various orthoses to improve their abilities to stand and walk, such as mechanical orthoses, functional electrical ...

JRRD At A Glance

We discuss state-of-the-art passive devices for enhancing upperand lower-limb movement in people with neuromuscular disabilities. Special emphasis is placed on a passive functional upper-limb orthosis called the Wilmington Robotic Exoskeleton (WREX). It is exoskeletal, has two links and four degrees of freedom, and uses linear elastic elements to balance the effects of gravity in three dimensio...