On the assessment of coordination between upper extremities: Towards a common language between rehabilitation engineers, clinicians and neuroscientists

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Shirota, Camila ^a   Jansa, Jelka ^b   Diaz, Javier ^c   Balasubramanian, Sivakumar ^d   Mazzoleni, Stefano ^e   Borghese, N Alberto ^f   Melendez Calderon, Alejandro ^g,h  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c CEIT   (Spain)

^d CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^e SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^g NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h HOCOMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Assessment; Interlimb coordination; Robot aided; Sensor based; Upper limbs

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LIMB MOVEMENT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; NEUROREHABILITATION; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REHABILITATION; REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT; RESPONSE TIME; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SCIENTIST; SENSOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY; BIOMECHANICS; DEVICES; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REHABILITATION RESEARCH; STANDARDS; UPPER LIMB;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REHABILITATION RESEARCH; ROBOTICS; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84986192943     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17430003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12984-016-0186-x     Document Type: Review

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