PURPOSE The initial goals of rehabilitation after knee injuries and operations are to achieve full knee extension and to activate quadriceps muscle. In addition to regular physiotherapy, an android-based knee training device is designed to help patients achieve these goals and improve compliance in the early rehabilitation period. This knee training device combines fun in a computer game with m...

Although functionality and disease classifications are available thanks to initiatives such as the “international classification of functioning, disability and health”, the “systematized nomenclature of medicine clinical terms” and the “international classification of diseases”, a formal model of rehabilitation interventions has not been defined yet. This model can have a fundamental role in th...

Computer-supported rehabilitation can benefit many groups of patients. However, when designing such a therapy, it is important to take the characteristics of the patient population and the wishes of the therapists involved into account. This paper therefore focuses on the requirements of rehabilitation games for Multiple Sclerosis patients. As we have created a system for rehabilitating Multipl...

This paper is the first survey of the cognitive prosthetics field. Neurorehabilitation based on cognitive prosthetics is now reimbursed as a conventional therapy by many national insurance companies. The need for cognitive prosthetics is described in terms of gaps in rehabilitation methods, and a response to managed care limitations on duration of services. A definition is developed from work i...

This is to certify that the dissertation prepared by Dandan Huang entitled " Electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain computer interfaces for rehabilitation " has been approved by her committee as satisfactory completion of the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctoral of Philosophy. i Acknowledgments I would like to express my gratitude to all the people who have given their heart wh...