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Immersive VR for upper-extremity rehabilitation in patients with neurological disorders: a scoping review

Background Neurological disorders, such as stroke and chronic pain syndromes, profoundly impact independence and quality of life, especially when affecting upper extremity (UE) function. While conventional physical therapy has shown effectiveness in provid ...

BMC2024

Industrial Biotechnology Conservation Processes: Similarities with Natural Long-Term Preservation of Biological Organisms

Corinne Scaletta, Philippe Abdel Sayed, Nathalie Hirt-Burri, Alexis Laurent

Cryopreservation and lyophilization processes are widely used for conservation purposes in the pharmaceutical, biotechnological, and food industries or in medical transplantation. Such processes deal with extremely low temperatures (e.g., -196 degrees C) a ...

MDPI2023

A digital bridge between brain and spinal cord restores walking after paralysis

Grégoire Courtine, Jocelyne Bloch

Spinal-cord injury interrupts communication between the brain and spinal cord, leading to paralysis. An implant that decodes the brain signals that control movements and drives electrical stimulation of the spinal cord re-establishes this communication, en ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Augmented Cooper test: Biomechanical contributions to endurance performance

Kamiar Aminian, Salil Apte, Vincent Gremeaux, Simone Troxler

Running mechanics are modifiable with training and adopting an economical running technique can improve running economy and hence performance. While field measurement of running economy is cumbersome, running mechanics can be assessed accurately and conven ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Natural and targeted circuit reorganization after spinal cord injury

Grégoire Courtine, Jocelyne Bloch, Quentin Barraud, Jordan Squair, Mark Andrew Anderson, Claudia Kathe, Matthieu Pierre Gautier, Thomas Haynes Hutson

The authors summarize changes in circuits after spinal cord injury and current strategies to target these circuits in order to improve recovery, but also advocate for new concepts of reorganizing circuits informed by multi-omic single-cell atlases. A spina ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Hand exoskeleton for rehabilitation and assistance of hand motor functions

Luca Randazzo

A device and system for e.g. rehabilitation and assistance of hand motor functions, in particular a portable and underactuated hand exoskeleton for use in activities of daily living, is disclosed. ...

2022

Cellulan World: Interactive Platform to Learn Swarm Behaviors

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Hala Khodr, Aditi Kothiyal

Swarming behaviors are ubiquitous in nature, and an important topic to teach and learn. In the learning sciences domain of complex systems understanding, studies have shown that novices tend to assume that centralized control and leadership should exist wh ...

IFAAMAS2022

Application des bétons textiles dans la réaffectation d’une ferme en immeuble d’habitation

La rénovation et la réhabilitation de structures existantes est un sujet de plus en plus présent dans la construction moderne. Dans cette logique, la réhabilitation de fermes dont l’activité agricole a cessé présente une opportunité de valoriser un paysage ...

2021

Falls Efficacy Is Associated With Better Gait and Functional Outcomes After Rehabilitation in Older Patients

Kamiar Aminian

Objective: To examine the relationship between falls efficacy and the change in gait speed and functional status in older patients undergoing postacute rehabilitation. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: Postacute rehabilitation facility. Participan ...

W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC2021

Detecting Compensatory Motions and Providing Informative Feedback During a Tangible Robot Assisted Game for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation

Pierre Dillenbourg, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Barbara Bruno, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Ayberk Özgür, Hala Khodr

Gamified rehabilitation tackles the problem of keeping patients engaged in, and motivated to do physical rehabilitation to improve its efficacy. However, with respect to standard rehabilitation, patients are freer to move about and may compensate their mot ...

IEEE2021

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