Relationship between clinical assessments of function and measurements from an upper-limb robotic rehabilitation device in cervical spinal cord injury

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 341-350

  Zariffa, José ^a   Kapadia, Naaz ^a   Kramer, John L K ^b   Taylor, Philippa ^b   Alizadeh Meghrazi, Milad ^a   Zivanovic, Vera ^a   Albisser, Urs ^e   Willms, Rhonda ^c,d   Townson, Andrea ^c,d   Curt, Armin ^e   Popovic, Milos R ^a,f   Steeves, John D ^b  

^a TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION ON REPAIR DISCOVERIES   (Canada)

^c GF STRONG REHABILITATION CENTRE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action Research Arm Test (ARAT); Graded and Redefined Assessment of Strength, Sensibility and Prehension (GRASSP); regression analysis; robotic rehabilitation; Spinal Cord Independence Measure (SCIM); spinal cord injury; upper extremity

Indexed keywords

ACTION RESEARCH; GRADED AND REDEFINED ASSESSMENT OF STRENGTH, SENSIBILITY AND PREHENSION (GRASSP); INDEPENDENCE MEASURE; ROBOTIC REHABILITATION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES (SCI); UPPER EXTREMITY;

FORECASTING; PATIENT REHABILITATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ROBOTICS;

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL SPINE; FEMALE; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOVEMENT; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84861498397     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2011.2181537     Document Type: Article

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