1 Department of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 10 South Pine Street, Medical School Teaching Facility 559 A, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA 3Department of Bioengineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, Rich...

Nathaniel T. Pickle, Jason M. Wilken, Jennifer M. Aldridge, Richard R. Neptune and Anne K. Silverman Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA Center for the Intrepid, Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Brooke Army Medical Center, Ft. Sam Houston, TX, USA Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA ema...

Atsushi Yamamoto1, Jun Suzurikawa2, Keisuke Nagato1, Tadashi Tsukada1, Aya Tanaka1, Tetsuya Hamaguchi1 and Masayuki Nakao1 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate school of Engineering The University of Tokyo 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan 2Department of Assistive Technology, Research Institute of National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities 4-1 Namiki, Tokorozawa,...

objective: cell vital function has correlation with mechanical loadings that cell experiences. here, effects of in-vitro combined cyclic-static stretch on proliferation of human mesenchymal stem cell (hmsc) were evaluated. materials and methods: hmscs were cultured on gelatin coated elastic membranes, and exposed to stretch loading. four different regimes of cyclic, static, combined cyclic-sta...

The SMART project, entitled ‘SMART rehabilitation: technological applications for use in the home with stroke patients’, is funded under the EQUAL (extend quality of life) initiative of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The project aims to examine the scope, effectiveness and appropriateness of systems to support home-based rehabilitation for older people and th...

Engineering structures such as bridges, tunnels, dams or towers are beginning to approach their service lifetime. To give an example, more than 20,000 bridges in Germany currently require immediate rehabilitation; similar situations apply in other countries. Thus, efficient and cost-effective structural health monitoring systems are needed to ensure serviceability and structural safety through ...

Gait rehabilitation using body weight support on a treadmill is a recommended rehabilitation technique for neurological injuries, such as spinal cord injury. In this paper, a new robotic orthosis is presented for treadmill training. In the presented design the criteria such as low inertia of robot components, backdrivability, high safety and degrees of freedom based on human walking are conside...

1 Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury 2 3 4 Keith E. Gordon, Ming Wu, Jennifer H. Kahn, and Brian D. Schmit 5 Sensory Motor Performance Program, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago 6 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Medical School 7 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University 8 9 Running Head: Locomotor Adaptation to Ankle-Foot Load 10 11 Corr...

Simultaneous Characterizations of Reflex and nonreflex, dynamic and static 1 changes in spastic hemiparesis 2 3 Li-Qun Zhang, Sun G. Chung, Yupeng Ren, 4 Lin Liu, Elliot J. Roth and W. Zev Rymer 5 6 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 7 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 8 Department of Biomedical Engineering 9 Department of Physiology 10 Northwestern University 11 Rehabilitation ...

The number of clinical trials in regenerative medicine is burgeoning, and stem cell/tissue engineering technologies hold the possibility of becoming the standard of care for a multitude of diseases and injuries. Advances in regenerative biology reveal novel molecular and cellular targets, with potential to optimize tissue healing and functional recovery, thereby refining rehabilitation clinical...