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Scientific Questions / Comments:

Zev Rymer, MD, Ph.D.
Director, MARS-RERC & SMPP
312-238-3381
w-rymer@northwestern.edu

 

James L Patton, Ph.D.
Associate Director, MARS-RERC
312-238-1277
jpatton@ric.org

MARS Publications

2009

Sucar LE, Azcarate G, Leder R, Reinkensmeyer D, Hernandez J, Sanchez I & Saucedo P,  "Gesture Therapy: A vision--based system for arm rehabilitation after stroke", in A. Fred, J. Filipe, H. Gamboa (Eds.) {\em Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technology}, Springer--Verlag, pp. 531--540, 2008.

Duschau-Wicke A, Brunsch T, Felsenstein S, Vallery H & Riener R (2009)  Patient-Cooperative Control: Adapting Robotic Interventions to Individual Human Capabilities IFMBE Proceedings, World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03889-1_73

Vallery H, Guidali M,  Duschau-Wicke A & Riener R Patient-Cooperative Control: Providing Safe Support without Restricting Movement IFMBE Proceedings, World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03889-1_45

Connelly L, Stoykov ME, Jia Y, Toro ML, Kenyon RV & Kamper DG (2009) Use of a pneumatic glove for hand rehabilitation following stroke. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2009;1:2434-7.PMID: 19965204 [PubMed - in process]

Ochoa J, Dev Narasimhan YJ & Kamper DG (2009) Development of a portable actuated orthotic glove to facilitate gross extension of the digits for therapeutic training after stroke. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2009;1:6918-21.

Duschau-Wicke, A, Felsenstein, S & Riener, R (2009)   Adaptive body weight support controls human activity during robot-aided gait training , IEEE Intl Conf on Rehabilitation Robotics, (ICORR), Kyoto, Japan, 23-36 June.

Housman, S, Scott, K & Reinkensmeyer, D  (2009). A randomized controlled trial of gravity-supported, computer-enhanced arm exercise for individuals with severe stroke. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 23, 505-14.

Manheim, LM, Halper, AS & Cherney, L (2009)  Patient reported changes in communication after computer-based script training for aphasia. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 90:623-7.

Meghani, A, Burgess, JK & Patton, JL (2009) Int Transfer of Learning Reveals Representations In Simultaneous Extrinsic and Intrinsic Coordinate Systems. In: IEEE Intl Conf on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), Kyoto, Japan.

Reinkensmeyer, DJ & Patton, JL  (2009) Can Robots Help the Learning of Skilled Actions? , Exerc. Sport Sci. Rev., Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 43Y51.

Rozario, S, Housman, S, Kovic, M, Kenyon, R & Patton JL (2009) Therapist-mediated post-stroke rehabilitation using haptic/graphic error augmentation. In: IEEE Engineering In Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC), Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Sucar, LE, Leder, R, Hernández, J, Sánchez, I & Azcárate, G  (2009) "Clinical Evaluation of a Low--Cost Alternative for Stroke Rehabilitation", IEEE Intl Conf on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), pp. 863-866.

Sucar, LE, Leder,  R, Hernández, J, Sánchez, I & Molina, A  (2009) "Gesture Therapy: a Clinical Evaluation", 3rd Intl Conf on Pervasive Technologies for Health Care, ICST, London, UK.

Vallery, H, Duschau-Wicke, A & Riener, R (2009) Generalized Elasticities Improve Patient-Cooperative Control of Rehabilitation Robots, IEEE Intl Conf on Rehabilitation Robotics, Kyoto, Japan, 23-36 June.

Vallery, H, Duschau-Wicke, A & Riener, R (2009) Optimized Passive Dynamics Improve Transparency of Haptic Devices , IEEE Intl Conf on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, 12-17 May.

2008

Dvorkin, AY, Rymer, WZ, Harvey, RL, Bogey, RA & Patton, JL (2008) Assessment and monitoring of recovery of spatial neglect within a virtual environment, Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Rehabilitation 2008. p. 88-92, Vancouver, Canada, August .

Duschau-Wicke, A, Zitzewitz, J.v, Lünenburger, L & Riener , R (2008)  Patient-Driven Cooperative Gait Training with the Rehabilitation Robot Lokomat, MBEC .

Hornby TG, Campbell DD, Kahn JH, Demott T, Moore JL & Roth HR  (2008) Enhanced Gait-Related Improvement After Therapist vs. Robotic-Assisted Locomotor Training in Subjects with Chronic Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Study , Stroke,  39, May. 

Leder, R S. et al. (2008) Therapy in Stroke Survivors with Upper Extremity Hemipariesis. IEEE Virtual Rehabilitation, July . New York.

Patton JL, Brown D, Peshkin M, Santos J, Makhlin A, Lewis E, Colgate JE &  Schwandt D (2008) KineAssist: Design and development of a robotic overground gait and balance therapy device, Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation 15(2) 131-139.

Patton, JL, Small, SL, Rymer, WZ  (2008) “Functional Restoration for the Stroke Survivor: Informing the Efforts of Engineers ,” Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 15(6):521–541;  doi 10.1310/tsr1506-521.

Patton, JL, Brown, JA, Peshkin, M, Santos-Munne, JJ, Makhlin, A, Lewis, E,  Colgate, jE & Schwandt, D (2008)  KineAssist: Design and Development of a Robotic Overground Gait and Balance Therapy Device, Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation  15(21) 131-139.

Quintana, GE, Sucar, LE & Azcárate, G (2008)  “Qualification of Arm Gestures using Hidden Markov Models”, IEEE Face and Gesture Recognition, September. 

Spencer SJ, Klein J, Minakata K, Le V, Bobrow JE & Reinkensmeyer DJ (2008) A low cost parallel robot and trajectory optimization method for wrist and forearm rehabilitation using the Wii, Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Conf on Biorobotics.

Sulzer, J, Patton, JL & Peshkin M (2008) Pulling Your Strings: Cable Moment Arm Manipulation as a Method of Joint Actuation , IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, September,  p70-78 [Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2008.927692].

2007

Bogey, R & Hornby, GT (2007) Gait training strategies utilized in poststroke rehabilitation: are we really making a difference?. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 14(6), 1-8.

Burgess, JK, Bareither, R & Patton, JL (2007)  Single Limb Performance Following Contralateral Bimanual Limb Training, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 15(2)347-355.

Dvorkin, A, Rymer, W, Settle, K & Patton JL (2007) Assessment of Spatial Neglect Within a Virtual Environment. Virtual Rehabilitation Conference.

Fischer, HC, Stubblefield, K, Kline, TL, Luo, X, Kenyon, RV & Kamper DG (2007) Virtual reality and mechatronics for hand rehabilitation following stroke: a pilot study. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 14, 1- 12.

Housman, S. Rahman, T, Sanchez, R & Reinkensmeyer, D (2007)  Arm-Training with T-WREX after Chronic Stroke: Preliminary Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial. Proc  IEEE Intl Conf on Rehabilitation Robotics, Noordwijk, the Netherlands, June 13-15, 562-568.

Huang, F, Patton, JL & Mussa-Ivaldi, F (2007) Interactive priming enhanced by negative damping aids learning of an object manipulation task . IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, EMBc.

Jia Y, Toro ML, Luo X, Lau S, Kenyon R & Kamper D (2007) Integration of virtual reality and an assistive device for hand rehabilitation following stroke . Proc IEEE/ICME Intl Conf & Exhibition on Complex Medical Engineering, Beijing, China.

Kline, TL, Schmit, BD & Kamper, DG  (2007) Exaggerated interlimb neural coupling following stroke. Brain 2007; 130:159-169.

Reed, KB, Hartmann, MJ, Patton, JL & Peshkin, M  (2007)  Replicating Human-Human Physical Interaction. IEEE-Intl Conf on Robotics and Automation.

Reinkensmeyer, D & Housman, S  (2007) "If I cant do it once, why do it a hundred times?": Connecting volition to movement success in a virtual environment motivates people to exercise the arm after stroke. Proceedings of the  IEEE Conf on Virtual Rehabilitation, 44-48.

Sulzer, J, Peshkin, M, Patton, JL (2007) Catastrophe and Stability Analysis of a Cable-Driven Actuator. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology  (EMBC New York,.

Sulzer, JS, Peshkin, MA & Patton, JL (2007) “Design of a Mobile, Inexpensive Device for Upper Extremity Rehabilitation at Home” IEEE-Intl Conf on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

Archives of MARS Publications prior to 2007