Objectives.  1) To compare the effect of cyclic neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) of the forearm and elbow extensor muscles with passive stretching exercises on hand function and sensation following stroke. 2) To inform sample size for a larger randomized controlled trial (RCT). Materials and Methods.  Twenty-two subjects with hemiplegia resulting from a stroke during the previous 12 ...

This study aimed to analyze high school EFL teachers’ attitudes toward collaborative action research (CAR). This study was of both qualitative and quantitative types. The number of the selected samples of this research, based on the convenience sampling method, were 20 male and female EFL teachers teaching at the Education and Training Organization of Isfahan Province. As the instrument of this...

Aim: To determine the effects of Hand-arm Bimanual Intensive Training on fine motor skills chronic stroke patients. Methods: A randomized control trail was conducted at District Head Quarter Hospital Sargodha. Twenty-eight patients were into 2 groups. All examined by using Questionnaire Disabilities Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (DASH), Action Research Arm Test (ARAT) Wolf Motor Function (WMFT). Cont...

This study examines and compares the response of two upper extremity test devices under driver-side air bag deployment to contribute to the development of dummy surrogates for the investigation of primary contact forearm injuries during air bag deployments. The first of these test devices, the SAE 5’ Percentile Female Arm (SAE Arm), is an anthropomorphic representation of a small female forearm...

This paper proposes an approach for the minimum time swing upof a rotary inverted pendulum. Our rotary inverted pendulum is supported bya pivot arm. The pivot arm rotates in a horizontal plane by means of a servomotor. The opposite end of the arm is instrumented with a joint whose axisis along the radial direction of the motor. A pendulum is suspended at thejoint. The task is to design a contro...

The use and application of robotic arms in helping the aged vulnerable persons are increasing gradually. In order to achieve safer reliable human-robot interaction its wider adoption, requirements for humanoid motion becoming more stringent. This paper presents a planning method arm based on physics human reinforcement learning. Firstly, rules extracted by analyzing learning action data arm, wh...