Arm-eye coordination test to objectively quantify motor performance and muscles activation in persons after stroke undergoing robot-aided rehabilitation training: A pilot study

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 229, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 373-382

  Song, Rong ^a   Tong, Kai Yu ^b   Hu, Xiaoling ^b   Li, Le ^a   Sun, Rui ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Arm tracking; Robot aided rehabilitation; Sensorimotor control; Stroke; Velocity dependent

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ELBOW; ELBOW FLEXION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JOINT; MALE; MICROCOMPUTER; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TRAINING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; REHABILITATION CARE; ROBOTICS; SENSOR; SHOULDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ARM; ELBOW; EYE; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PILOT PROJECTS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; ROBOTICS; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84892807500     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3418-3     Document Type: Article

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