Browse the latest research summaries in the field of assistive technology for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2017 • February 28, 2017
The study introduces GRIPIT, a hand assist device designed to aid people with spinal cord injuries in performing a tripod grasp, which is essential for tasks like writing. GRIPIT uses a glove-based sy...
KEY FINDING: GRIPIT offers advantages in writing sensation, fatigability, and legibility due to its stable grasp force during writing. It is, however, more complicated to wear and use than a conventional device.
Spinal Cord Series and Cases, 2015 • October 8, 2015
The study compared a new medial linkage orthosis (MLO) to a conventional isocentric reciprocating gait orthosis (IRGO) in four paraplegic patients to assess energy consumption during walking. The resu...
KEY FINDING: Walking with the new MLO resulted in faster walking speeds compared to the IRGO.
Spinal Cord Series and Cases, 2015 • October 8, 2015
The study evaluated the effect of walking with isocentric reciprocating gait orthoses (IRGOs) utilizing two designs of ankle foot orthoses (AFOs) on specific outcome measures in people with spinal cord...
KEY FINDING: Increased walking speed was observed with dorsiflexion-assisted AFOs compared to solid AFOs.
Spinal Cord Series and Cases, 2016 • January 7, 2016
This case study examined the impact of ReWalk exoskeleton training on the quality of life of a patient with an incomplete spinal cord injury. The patient showed improvements in multiple areas, includi...
KEY FINDING: The patient's physical functioning, physical role function, physical pain, general health, vitality and psychical well-being improved after training with the ReWalk exoskeleton.
Spinal Cord Series and Cases, 2016 • January 7, 2016
This case report highlights the successful prosthetic rehabilitation of a 55-year-old man with incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI) and a transtibial amputation. The patient, a former community ambulat...
KEY FINDING: A patient with both spinal cord injury and amputation can achieve successful prosthetic rehabilitation with appropriate assessment and prescription.
Spinal Cord Series and Cases, 2016 • April 7, 2016
The study compared a new medial linkage orthosis (MLO) with a traditional isocentric reciprocating gait orthosis (IRGO) in SCI patients. The new MLO showed improvements in stride length and walking sp...
KEY FINDING: Walking with the MLO improved stride length and speed of walking by 28.57 and 40.9% compared with walking with an IRGO as a control condition.
J Physiol Paris, 2016 • November 1, 2016
This study introduces a retrospectively supervised (RS) method for self-calibrating the click decoder in a point-and-click brain-computer interface (BCI). This approach eliminates the need for explici...
KEY FINDING: The study demonstrated a “retrospectively supervised” (RS) method for calibrating the click decoder of a brain-computer interface (BCI) using data acquired during practical BCI use.
Mayo Clin Proc, 2012 • March 1, 2012
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) acquire brain signals, analyze them, and translate them into commands that are relayed to output devices that carry out desired actions. Brain-computer interfaces may ...
KEY FINDING: A BCI system consists of 4 sequential components: (1) signal acquisition, (2) feature extraction, (3) feature translation, and (4) device output.
Ann Rehabil Med, 2017 • February 1, 2017
This study evaluated the effectiveness of robot-assisted gait training (RAGT) on improving gait speed in patients with motor incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI). The study found that younger patients...
KEY FINDING: Younger age and shorter disease duration were associated with greater improvement in gait speed after RAGT.
Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 2017 • October 1, 2017
The study quantified and compared spinal curvature and scapulothoracic and glenohumeral kinematics throughout the MWC propulsion cycle while individuals with SCI were seated at 2 different seat dump a...
KEY FINDING: Participants had significantly less lordosis in the 14° condition for all propulsion events.