The Relationship Between Wheelchair Mobility Patterns and Community Participation Among Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury Rory A. Cooper PhD a , Eliana Ferretti PhD b , Michelle Oyster MS c , Annmarie Kelleher MSOTR/LATP a & Rosemarie Cooper MPTATP a a Human Engineering Research Laboratories, Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of Re...

1 Human Engineering Research Laboratories, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA 2Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA 3Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA 4Amsterdam Rehabilitation Research Center, Reade, 1040 HG Amsterdam, Th...

The Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Research Foundation, Sports Medicine Biodynamics Center and Human Performance Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH; University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Departments of Pediatrics and Orthopaedic Surgery and the College of Engineering, Department of Biomédical Engineering and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Allied Health Sciences, Cincinna...

There is a need to organize rehabilitation and related research into distinct scientific fields in order to overcome the current limitations of rehabilitation research. Based on the general distinction in basic, applied and professional sciences applicable to research in general, and the rehabilitation relevant distinction between the comprehensive perspective based on WHO's integrative model o...

2008–present Ph.D. Candidate, Mechatronics Engineering, graduation date 15 August 2014 Sabancı University Istanbul, Turkey Thesis: Optimal Exoskeleton Design and Effective Human-in-the-Loop Control Frameworks for Rehabilitation Robotics – Designed and implemented a parallel mechanism based rehabilitation device, optimized for singularity free workspace and kinematic isotropy. – Introduced a nov...

Human functioning and rehabilitation research can be organized into 5 distinct scientific fields. The objective of this paper is to provide conceptual descriptions and to outline selected research domains for 4 of the 5 distinct scientific fields. A conceptual description of the biosciences in rehabilitation and the presentation of respective research domains are beyond the scope of this paper....

1 Reinhard Hainisch, 1 Margit Gföhler, 2 Andreas Kranzl and 3 Marcus G. Pandy 1 Vienna University of Technology, Machine Design and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vienna, Austria 2 Orthopedic Hospital Speising, Laboratory of Gait and Human Movement, Vienna, Austria 3 University of Melbourne, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Victoria 3010, Australia email: [email protected], web: ...