Locations

• Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

Board Certified

Research Interests

Todd Kuiken, MD, PhD is currently researching amputation, prosthetics, electrodiagnosis, prosthetic control systems, using nerve-muscle grafts to obtain additional myoelectric control signal, bioelectromagnetics modeling, prosthetic design, human gait, and care of the amputee Clinical Interests Dr. Kuiken is a practicing Physiatrist and Director of Amputee Services at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. His clinical interests include care of people with limb loss, amputee pain, phantom limb pain, gait disorders, spinal cord injury, fitting of orthotic devices and patient emotional well being.

Research Studies

Clinical Expertise

Todd Kuiken, MD, PhD, has expertise providing care to patients with:

Education & Training

Education

Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Doctorate in Biomedical Engineering, 1989

Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois

Doctor of Medicine, 1990

Duke University

B.S. Biomedical Engineering, 1983

Residencies

Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago/Northwestern University Medical School

Resident, 1992-1995

Evanston Hospital, Evanston, Illinois

Intern, 1991

Fellowships

Frankel Research Fellow at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

1992

Awards & Recognition

Recent or Important Publications

Kuiken TA Dumanian GA, Lipschutz RD, Miller LA and Stubblefield KA. The use of targeted muscle reinnervation for improved myoelectric prosthesis control in a bilateral shoulder disarticulation amputee. Prosthetics and Orthotics International, 28(3) pp.245-253. December 2004.

Stoykov N.S., Lowery M.M., and Kuiken T.A. A finite-element analysis of the effect of muscle insulation and shielding on the surface EMG signal. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 51, December, 2004.

Lowery M.M., Stoykov N.S., Dewald J.P.A. and Kuiken T.A. Volume Conduction in an Anatomically-Based Surface EMG Model. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 51, December, 2004.

Kuiken TA. Consideration of nerve-muscle grafts to improve the control of artificial arms. Journal of Technology and Disability, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp.105-111, 2003.

Stoykov NS, Kuiken TA, Lowery MM and Taflove A. Finite-element time-domain algorithms for modelling linear Debye and Lorentz dielectric dispersions at low frequencies. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 50, No. 9, pp. 1100-1107, 2003.

Lowery MM, Stoykov NS and Kuiken TA. Independence of myoelectric control signals examined using a surface EMG model. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 50, No. 6, pp. 789-793, 2003.

Kuiken TA, Lowery MM and Stoykov NS. The effect of subcutaneous fat on myoelectric signal amplitude and cross-talk. Prosthetics and Orthotics International 27, pp 48-54, 2003.

Lowery MM, Stoykov NS, Taflove A and Kuiken TA. A simulation study of surface EMG cross-talk as an estimate of surface EMG cross-talk. Journal of Applied Physiology 94, pp 1324-1334, 2003.

Stoykov NS, Lowery MM, Taflove A and Kuiken TA. Frequency and time domain FEM models of EMG: capacitive effects and aspects of dispersion. IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering 49(8), pp.763-72, 2002.

Lowery MM, Stoykov NS, Taflove A and Kuiken TA. A multi-layer finite element model of the surface EMG signal. IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering 49(5), pp. 446-54, 2002.

Kuiken TA, Stoykov NS, Popovic M, Lowery MM and Taflove A. Finite element modelling of electromagnetic signal propagation in a phantom arm. IEEE Transactions in Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 9(4), pp. 346-354, 2001.