Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

Featured review: Interactive wearable systems for upper body rehabilitation: a systematic review

"The results indicated that accelerometers and inertial measurement units were most commonly used and they were used to monitor and provide feedback to patients on range of motion and movement performance during upper body rehabilitation. New possibilities are arising with up-coming technologies such as e-textiles and nano-sensors. There is a growing trend for using the smartphone as a monitoring device and as a feedback carrier."

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Featured article: A muscle-driven approach to restore stepping with an exoskeleton for individuals with paraplegia

The authors found that a self-contained muscle-driven exoskeleton is feasible to restore stepping in individuals with motor complete paralysis from spinal cord injury.

Featured article: Physical interface dynamics alter how robotic exosuits augment human movement: implications for optimizing wearable assistive devices

The authors present a new methodology that can isolate power contributions from individual human-device interfaces. This provides insight into device-to-human power transmission and how to improve the design and control of wearable assistive devices.

Aims and scope

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation considers manuscripts on all aspects of research that result from cross-fertilization of the fields of neuroscience, biomedical engineering, and physical medicine and rehabilitation. JNER provides a forum for researchers and clinicians interested in understanding the way neuroscience and biomedical engineering are continuing to reshape physical medicine and rehabilitation. JNER hosts the introduction of new methods and the discussion of their clinical implications, and offers an opportunity to publish, in a timely manner, articles relevant to the intersection of these three fields.

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Virtual reality-based applications for neurorehabilitation
Edited by: Sergi Bermúdez i Badia and Roberto Lloréns Rodríguez

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Technically-advanced assessments in sensory motor rehabilitation
Edited by: Thierry Keller, Verena Klamroth-Marganska, and Robert Riener

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Wearable robotics in clinical testing
Edited by: José Contreras-Vidal, José Gonzalez-Vargas, and José Luis Pons

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Using a virtual reality system to improve balance for those with multiple sclerosis
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Think to walk: restoring walking after paraplegia
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The use of virtual reality to improve limb use for persons post-stroke
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Standards of reporting

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation advocates the complete and transparent reporting of research and methods. Authors are required to follow relevant reporting guidelines and append the appropriate reporting guideline checklist to their manuscript on submission, available from the EQUATOR Network. See BioMed Central’s policy page for further information.

David Reinkensmeyer, Editor-in-Chief

David Reinkensmeyer is Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of California, Irvine. Prior to this, he received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a postdoctoral fellow then research assistant professor in the Sensory Motor Performance Program, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Medical School, before joining U.C Irvine in 1998. Prof. Reinkensmeyer's research interests include neuromuscular control, motor learning, robotics, and rehabilitation.