BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Of all stroke survivors, 30% to 66% are unable to use their affected arm in performing activities of daily living. Although forced use therapy appears to improve arm function in chronic stroke patients, there is no conclusive evidence. This study evaluates the effectiveness of forced use therapy. METHODS In an observer-blinded randomized clinical trial, 66 chronic strok...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Mental practice (MP) of a particular motor skill has repeatedly been shown to activate the same musculature and neural areas as physical practice of the skill. Pilot study results suggest that a rehabilitation program incorporating MP of valued motor skills in chronic stroke patients provides sufficient repetitive practice to increase affected arm use and function. This P...

BACKGROUND Studies demonstrate that most arm motor recovery occurs within three months after stroke, when measured with standard clinical scales. Improvements on these measures, however, reflect a combination of recovery in motor control, increases in strength, and acquisition of compensatory strategies. OBJECTIVE To isolate and characterize the time course of recovery of arm motor control ov...

Introduction Up to 80% of post-stroke patients present upper-limb motor impairment (ULMI), causing functional limitations in daily activities and loss independence. UMLI is seldom fully recovered after stroke when using conventional therapeutic approaches. Functional Electrical Stimulation Therapy (FEST) controlled by Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) an alternative that may induce neuroplastic ch...

BACKGROUND The Action Research Arm (ARA) test is a performance test of upper extremity motor function which consists of 19 items divided into four hierarchical subtests. This multidimensionality has not yet been tested empirically. OBJECTIVE To investigate the dimensionality of the ARA test. DESIGN Cross-sectional study involving a sample of 63 chronic stroke patients. METHODS A Mokken sc...

The effect of base temperature variation on the heat transfer from unsteady state annular heat sink of cooling microelectronic device. Three types of the base temperature variation equations are taken in the present study. The Sine wave variation, Cosine wave variation & exponential variation of the base temperature. The finite element technique based on Galerkin method with axisymmetric rectan...

This paper aims to develop a writing robot by recognizing the speech signal from the user. The robot arm constructed mainly for the disabled people who can’t perform writing on their own. Here, dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm is used to recognize the speech signal from the user. The action performed by the robot arm in the environment is done by reducing the redundancy which frequently fac...

اهتفاقثو اهرخفو ةملأا ةيأ ةيوه نم أزجتي لا اءزج يرامعملا ثارتلا لكشي . ةيخيراتلا ةرامعلا رصانع نا يف اهؤانبو اهميمصت مت دق ةيملاسلإا تابلطتمل يويحو لاعف لكشب ةباجتسلاا ىلع ةرداق نوكت ثيحب يضاملا ةينيدلاو ةيسفنلاو ةيعامتجلااو ةيئيبلاو ةيداملا سانلا . رضاحلا تقولا يف نويرامعملا نوسدنهملا موقي رصانعلا ذخأب اوذخأي ام ةداعو ميمصتلا عيراشم يف اهلاخدا و ةيملاسلإا ةيخيراتلا ينابملا نم ةفلتخملا نيوكت ر...

BACKGROUND About half of survivors with stroke experience severe and significant long-term disability. The purpose of this article is to review the state of the science and to make recommendations for measuring patient-centric outcomes in interventions for motor improvement in the chronic stroke phase. METHODS AND RESULTS A 9-member expert panel reviewed evidence to identify measures of upper...