Myoelectric control in neurorehabilitation

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 381-391

  Jiang, Ning ^a,b   Falla, Deborah ^a,c   D'Avella, Andrea ^d   Graimann, Bernhard ^b   Farina, Dario ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH   (Germany)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

EMG; Muscle synergies; Neurorehabilitation; Pattern recognition; Prosthesis

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MUSCLE; MYOELECTRICALLY CONTROLLED PROSTHETICS; NEUROMUSCULAR REHABILITATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROSTHETICS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADVANCED SIGNAL PROCESSING; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRI-CAL STIMULATIONS; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; MUSCLE SYNERGIES; MYOELECTRIC CONTROL; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEMS; NEUROREHABILITATION; REHABILITATION ROBOT;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ARM PROSTHESIS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROL SYSTEM; DEVICE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH; LIMB MOVEMENT; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MOTOR CONTROL; MYOELECTRIC CONTROL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; NEUROPROSTHESIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; REHABILITATION MEDICINE; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 78650102052     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevBiomedEng.v38.i4.30     Document Type: Review

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