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  1. Advances in medical diagnosis and treatment have facilitated the emergence of precision medicine. In contrast, locomotor rehabilitation for individuals with acquired neuromotor injuries remains limited by the ...

    Authors: Louis N. Awad, Michael D. Lewek, Trisha M. Kesar, Jason R. Franz and Mark G. Bowden

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:139

    Content type: Review

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  2. Standardized assessments are used in rehabilitation clinics after stroke to measure restoration versus compensatory movements of the upper limb. Accelerometry is an emerging tool that can bridge the gap betwee...

    Authors: Jessica Barth, Joeseph W. Klaesner and Catherine E. Lang

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:138

    Content type: Research

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  3. Robotic rehabilitation of stroke survivors with upper extremity dysfunction may yield different outcomes depending on the robot type. Considering that excessive dependence on assistive force by robotic actuato...

    Authors: Jin Ho Park, Gyulee Park, Ha Yeon Kim, Ji-Yeong Lee, Yeajin Ham, Donghwan Hwang, Suncheol Kwon and Joon-Ho Shin

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:137

    Content type: Research

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  4. Handrim wheelchair propulsion is often assessed in the laboratory on treadmills (TM) or ergometers (WE), under the assumption that they relate to regular overground (OG) propulsion. However, little is known ab...

    Authors: Rick de Klerk, Vera Velhorst, Dirkjan (H.E.J.) Veeger, Lucas H. V. van der Woude and Riemer J. K. Vegter

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:136

    Content type: Research

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  5. Physical activity is a recommended part of treatment for numerous neurological and neuromuscular disorders. Yet, many individuals with limited mobility are not able to meet the recommended activity levels. Lig...

    Authors: Florian Leander Haufe, Kai Schmidt, Jaime Enrique Duarte, Peter Wolf, Robert Riener and Michele Xiloyannis

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:135

    Content type: Research

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  6. After transfemoral amputation, many hours of practice are needed to re-learn walking with a prosthesis. The long adaptation process that consolidates a novel gait pattern seems to depend on cerebellar function...

    Authors: Vera G. M. Kooiman, Helco G. van Keeken, Natasha M. Maurits, Vivian Weerdesteyn and Teodoro Solis-Escalante

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:134

    Content type: Research

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  7. Motor hand skill and associated dexterity is important for meeting the challenges of daily activity and an important resource post-stroke. In this context, the present study investigated the finger movements o...

    Authors: Werner Krammer, John H. Missimer, Simon Habegger, Manuela Pastore-Wapp, Roland Wiest and Bruno J. Weder

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:133

    Content type: Research

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  8. Chronic hand and wrist impairment are frequently present following stroke and severely limit independence in everyday life. The wrist orientates and stabilizes the hand before and during grasping, and is there...

    Authors: Charles Lambelet, Damir Temiraliuly, Marc Siegenthaler, Marc Wirth, Daniel G. Woolley, Olivier Lambercy, Roger Gassert and Nicole Wenderoth

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:132

    Content type: Research

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  9. Accurate prediction of motor recovery after stroke is critical for treatment decisions and planning. Machine learning has been proposed to be a promising technique for outcome prediction because of its high ac...

    Authors: Hiren Kumar Thakkar, Wan-wen Liao, Ching-yi Wu, Yu-Wei Hsieh and Tsong-Hai Lee

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:131

    Content type: Research

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  10. After stroke, kinematic measures obtained with non-robotic and robotic devices are highly recommended to precisely quantify the sensorimotor impairments of the upper-extremity and select the most relevant ther...

    Authors: Nabila Brihmat, Isabelle Loubinoux, Evelyne Castel-Lacanal, Philippe Marque and David Gasq

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:130

    Content type: Research

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  11. Today immersive environments such as Virtual Reality (VR) offer new opportunities for serious gaming in exercise therapy and psychoeducation. Chronic back pain (CBP) patients could benefit from exergames in VR...

    Authors: Oskar Stamm, Rebecca Dahms and Ursula Müller-Werdan

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:129

    Content type: Research

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  12. Assessing arm and hand sensorimotor impairments that are functionally relevant is essential to optimize the impact of neurorehabilitation interventions. Technology-aided assessments should provide a sensitive ...

    Authors: Christoph M. Kanzler, Anne Schwarz, Jeremia P. O. Held, Andreas R. Luft, Roger Gassert and Olivier Lambercy

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:128

    Content type: Methodology

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  13. Individuals with acquired brain injuries (ABI) are in need of neurorehabilitation and neurorepair. Virtual anatomical interactivity (VAI) presents a digital game-like format in which ABI survivors with upper l...

    Authors: Jiří Keller, Ivana Štětkářová, Vince Macri, Simone Kühn, Jakub Pětioký, Stefano Gualeni, С. Douglas Simmons, Sajay Arthanat and Paul Zilber

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:127

    Content type: Research

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  14. Therapeutic management of the upper extremity (UE) function of people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) requires sensitive and objective assessment. Therefore, we aimed to measure physiologic UE function of S...

    Authors: Mariska M. H. P. Janssen, Laura H. C. Peeters and Imelda J. M. de Groot

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:126

    Content type: Research

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  15. Parkinson’s disease (PD) and essential tremor (ET) are movement disorders that can have similar clinical characteristics including tremor and gait difficulty. These disorders can be misdiagnosed leading to del...

    Authors: Sanghee Moon, Hyun-Je Song, Vibhash D. Sharma, Kelly E. Lyons, Rajesh Pahwa, Abiodun E. Akinwuntan and Hannes Devos

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:125

    Content type: Research

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  16. Persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) may experience both psychological and physiological benefits from robotic locomotor exoskeleton use, and knowledgeable users may have valuable perspectives to inform futur...

    Authors: Dominique Kinnett-Hopkins, Chaithanya K. Mummidisetty, Linda Ehrlich-Jones, Deborah Crown, Rachel A. Bond, Marc H. Applebaum, Arun Jayaraman, Catherine Furbish, Gail Forrest, Edelle Field-Fote and Allen W. Heinemann

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:124

    Content type: Research

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  17. Wearable powered exoskeletons are a new and emerging technology developed to provide sensory-guided motorized lower limb assistance enabling intensive task specific locomotor training utilizing typical lower l...

    Authors: Julie Vaughan-Graham, Dina Brooks, Lowell Rose, Goldie Nejat, Jose Pons and Kara Patterson

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:123

    Content type: Research

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  18. Impaired naming is a ubiquitous symptom in all types of aphasia, which often adversely impacts independence, quality of life, and recovery of affected individuals. Previous research has demonstrated that namin...

    Authors: Klaudia Grechuta, Belén Rubio Ballester, Rosa Espín Munné, Teresa Usabiaga Bernal, Begoña Molina Hervás, Bettina Mohr, Friedemann Pulvermüller, Rosa Maria San Segundo and Paul F. M. J. Verschure

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:122

    Content type: Research

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  19. Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) has been utilized for many years in cerebral palsy (CP) with limited success despite its inherent potential for improving muscle size and/or strength, inhibiting or ...

    Authors: Blynn L. Shideler, Thomas C. Bulea, Ji Chen, Christopher J. Stanley, Andrew J. Gravunder and Diane L. Damiano

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:121

    Content type: Research

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  20. Human sensorimotor control of dexterous manipulation relies on afferent sensory signals. Explicit tactile feedback is generally not available to prosthetic hand users, who have to rely on incidental informatio...

    Authors: Leonardo Cappello, Waleed Alghilan, Massimiliano Gabardi, Daniele Leonardis, Michele Barsotti, Antonio Frisoli and Christian Cipriani

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:120

    Content type: Research

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  21. Asymmetric gait post-stroke is associated with decreased mobility, yet individuals with chronic stroke often self-select an asymmetric gait despite being capable of walking more symmetrically. The purpose of t...

    Authors: Thu M. Nguyen, Rachel W. Jackson, Yashar Aucie, Digna de Kam, Steven H. Collins and Gelsy Torres-Oviedo

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:119

    Content type: Research

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  22. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) provides critical information about the neurophysiology of the central nervous systems (CNS), posing clinical significance for the understanding of neuropathologies...

    Authors: Hyungeun Song, Erica Israel, Shriya Srinivasan and Hugh Herr

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:118

    Content type: Research

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  23. Stiff-Knee gait (SKG) after stroke is often accompanied by decreased knee flexion angle during the swing phase. The decreased knee flexion has been hypothesized to originate from excessive quadriceps activatio...

    Authors: Tunc Akbas, Kyoungsoon Kim, Kathleen Doyle, Kathleen Manella, Robert Lee, Patrick Spicer, Maria Knikou and James Sulzer

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:117

    Content type: Research

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  24. State-of-the-art bionic hands incorporate hi-tech devices which try to overcome limitations of conventional single grip systems. Unfortunately, their complexity often limits mechanical robustness and intuitive...

    Authors: Cristina Piazza, Ann M. Simon, Kristi L. Turner, Laura A. Miller, Manuel G. Catalano, Antonio Bicchi and Levi J. Hargrove

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:116

    Content type: Research

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  25. Hand function is often impaired after stroke, strongly affecting the ability to perform daily activities. Upper limb robotic devices have been developed to complement rehabilitation therapy offered to persons ...

    Authors: Raffaele Ranzani, Olivier Lambercy, Jean-Claude Metzger, Antonella Califfi, Stefania Regazzi, Daria Dinacci, Claudio Petrillo, Paolo Rossi, Fabio M. Conti and Roger Gassert

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:115

    Content type: Research

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  26. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a leading cause of fatality and disability worldwide, partly due to the occurrence of secondary injury and late interventions. Correct diagnosis and timely monitoring ensure eff...

    Authors: Momen K. Tageldeen, Sally A. N. Gowers, Chi L. Leong, Martyn G. Boutelle and Emmanuel M. Drakakis

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:114

    Content type: Research

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  27. Regular body-powered (BP) prosthesis training facilitates the acquisition of skills through repeated practice but requires adequate time and motivation. Therefore, auxiliary tools such as indirect training may...

    Authors: Manabu Yoshimura, Hiroshi Kurumadani, Junya Hirata, Hiroshi Osaka, Katsutoshi Senoo, Shota Date, Akio Ueda, Yosuke Ishii, Seiji Kinoshita, Kozo Hanayama and Toru Sunagawa

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:113

    Content type: Research

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  28. We designed a novel ankle foot orthosis (AFO), namely, ideal training AFO (IT-AFO), with motion feedback on the hemiparetic lower limb to improve ambulation in individuals with stroke-related hemiplegia. We, t...

    Authors: Chih-Chao Hsu, Yin-Kai Huang, Jiunn-Horng Kang, Yi-Feng Ko, Chia-Wei Liu, Fu-Shan Jaw and Shih-Ching Chen

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:112

    Content type: Research

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  29. Stroke survivors experience chronic gait impairments, so rehabilitation has focused on restoring ambulatory capacity. High-intensity speed-based treadmill training (HISTT) is one form of walking rehabilitation...

    Authors: Sangeetha Madhavan, Brice T. Cleland, Anjali Sivaramakrishnan, Sally Freels, Hyosok Lim, Fernando D. Testai and Daniel M. Corcos

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:111

    Content type: Research

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  30. Recent studies have shown that neural stimulation can be used to provide artificial sensory feedback to amputees eliciting sensations referred on the amputated hand. The temporal properties of the neural stimu...

    Authors: Giacomo Valle, Ivo Strauss, Edoardo D’Anna, Giuseppe Granata, Riccardo Di Iorio, Thomas Stieglitz, Paolo Maria Rossini, Stanisa Raspopovic, Francesco Maria Petrini and Silvestro Micera

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:110

    Content type: Research

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  31. Spasticity after lesions of central motor pathways may be disabling and there is a need for new, cost-effective treatment methods. One novel approach is offered by the electro-dress Mollii®, primarily designed...

    Authors: Susanne Palmcrantz, Gaia Valentina Pennati, Hanna Bergling and Jörgen Borg

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:109

    Content type: Research

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  32. Body weight support systems with three or more degrees of freedom (3-DoF) are permissive and safe environments that provide unloading and allow unrestricted movement in any direction. This enables training of ...

    Authors: M. Bannwart, S. L. Bayer, N. König Ignasiak, M. Bolliger, G. Rauter and C. A. Easthope

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:108

    Content type: Research

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  33. Experimental designs using surrogate gait-like movements, such as in functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), cannot fully capture the cortical activation associated with overground gait. Overground gait i...

    Authors: Sue Peters, Shannon B. Lim, Dennis R. Louie, Chieh-ling Yang and Janice J. Eng

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:107

    Content type: Research

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  34. Despite numerous trials investigating robot-assisted therapy (RT) effects on upper-extremity (UE) function after stroke, few have explored the relationship between three-dimensional (3D) reach-to-target kinema...

    Authors: Catherine Adans-Dester, Susan E. Fasoli, Eric Fabara, Nicolas Menard, Annie B. Fox, Giacomo Severini and Paolo Bonato

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:106

    Content type: Research

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  35. Restoration of step length symmetry is a common rehabilitation goal after stroke. Persons post-stroke often retain the ability to walk with symmetric step lengths (“symmetric steps”); however, the resulting wa...

    Authors: Purnima Padmanabhan, Keerthana Sreekanth Rao, Shivam Gulhar, Kendra M. Cherry-Allen, Kristan A. Leech and Ryan T. Roemmich

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:105

    Content type: Research

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  37. Robotic technologies for neurological assessment provide sensitive, objective measures of behavioural impairments associated with injuries or disease such as stroke. Previous robotic tasks to assess propriocep...

    Authors: Catherine R. Lowrey, Benett Blazevski, Jean-Luc Marnet, Helen Bretzke, Sean P. Dukelow and Stephen H. Scott

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:103

    Content type: Research

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  38. Spasticity is a key motor impairment that affects many hemispheric stroke survivors. Intramuscular botulinum toxin (BT) injections are used widely to clinically manage spasticity-related symptoms in stroke sur...

    Authors: S. Chandra, B. Afsharipour, W. Z. Rymer and N. L. Suresh

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:102

    Content type: Research

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  39. The timing of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) with neurorehabilitation interventions may affect its modulatory effects. Motor function has been reported to be modulated by the timing of tDCS; ho...

    Authors: Wan-wen Liao, Wei-chi Chiang, Keh-chung Lin, Ching-yi Wu, Chien-ting Liu, Yu-wei Hsieh, Yun-chung Lin and Chia-ling Chen

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:101

    Content type: Research

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  40. Locomotor transitions between different ambulatory tasks are essential activities of daily life. During these transitions, biomechanics are affected by various factors such as anticipation, movement direction,...

    Authors: Wentao Li, Nathaniel T. Pickle and Nicholas P. Fey

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:100

    Content type: Research

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  41. Modern lower limb prostheses have the capability to replace missing body parts and improve the patients’ quality of life. However, missing environmental information often makes a seamless adaptation to transit...

    Authors: Michael Tschiedel, Michael Friedrich Russold and Eugenijus Kaniusas

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:99

    Content type: Review

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  42. In the last decades, several powered ankle-foot orthoses have been developed to assist the ankle joint of their users during walking. Recent studies have shown that the effects of the assistance provided by po...

    Authors: Marta Moltedo, Tomislav Baček, Ben Serrien, Kevin Langlois, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber and Carlos Rodriguez-Guerrero

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:98

    Content type: Research

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  43. Parkinsonism is common in people with dementia, and is associated with neurodegenerative and vascular changes in the brain, or with exposure to antipsychotic or other dopamine antagonist medications. The detec...

    Authors: Andrea Sabo, Sina Mehdizadeh, Kimberley-Dale Ng, Andrea Iaboni and Babak Taati

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:97

    Content type: Research

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  44. Performing activities of daily living depends, among other factors, on awareness of the position and movements of limbs. Neural injuries, such as stroke, might negatively affect such an awareness and, conseque...

    Authors: Bulmaro A. Valdés, Mahta Khoshnam, Jason L. Neva and Carlo Menon

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:96

    Content type: Research

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  45. Peripheral nerve stimulation with implanted nerve cuff electrodes can restore standing, stepping and other functions to individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). We performed the first study to evaluate the c...

    Authors: Max J. Freeberg, Gilles C. J. Pinault, Dustin J. Tyler, Ronald J. Triolo and Rahila Ansari

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:95

    Content type: Research

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  46. Activities of daily living frequently require children to make rapid decisions and execute desired motor actions while inhibiting unwanted actions. Children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy due to perinatal str...

    Authors: Rachel L. Hawe, Andrea M. Kuczynski, Adam Kirton and Sean P. Dukelow

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:94

    Content type: Research

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  47. Understanding how prostheses are used in everyday life is central to the design, provision and evaluation of prosthetic devices and associated services. This paper reviews the scientific literature on methodol...

    Authors: Alix Chadwell, Laura Diment, M. Micó-Amigo, Dafne Z. Morgado Ramírez, Alex Dickinson, Malcolm Granat, Laurence Kenney, Sisary Kheng, Mohammad Sobuh, Robert Ssekitoleko and Peter Worsley

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:93

    Content type: Review

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  48. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a customized interactive video game-based (IVGB) training on balance in older adults with mild-to-moderate Parkinson’s disease (PD).

    Authors: Rey-Yue Yuan, Shih-Ching Chen, Chih-Wei Peng, Yen-Nung Lin, Yu-Tai Chang and Chien-Hung Lai

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:91

    Content type: Research

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  49. Dexterity and activities of daily living limitations on the upper limb (UL) represent one of the most common problems in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). The aim of this study was to evaluate the effecti...

    Authors: Alicia Cuesta-Gómez, Patricia Sánchez-Herrera-Baeza, Edwin Daniel Oña-Simbaña, Alicia Martínez-Medina, Carmen Ortiz-Comino, Carlos Balaguer-Bernaldo-de-Quirós, Alberto Jardón-Huete and Roberto Cano-de-la-Cuerda

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:90

    Content type: Research

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  50. Current clinical assessments measure selective voluntary motor control (SVMC) on an ordinal scale. We introduce a playful, interval-scaled method to assess SVMC in children with brain lesions and evaluate its ...

    Authors: Jeffrey W. Keller, Annina Fahr, Julia Balzer, Jan Lieber and Hubertus J. A. van Hedel

    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2020 17:89

    Content type: Research

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