Neuroprostheses with the use of functional neuromuscular stimulation (FNS) have the potential to restore elbow and shoulder function lost to paralysis because of spinal cord injury (SCI). The human shoulder is highly flexible and thus provides a large range of motion to the arm and hand, although at the expense of precarious stability of the articulations. The complexity of the shoulder has pre...

background: rounded shoulder posture is a common abnormal posture in upper quarter. kinesiotape is a new intervention that recently used in rehabilitation. there are no studies have examined the effect of kinesiotape on rounded shoulder posture. therefore the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of scapular kinesiotaping and pectoralis minor stretching exercise on forward shoulder ...

Robotic exoskeletons are being developed to assist humans in tasks such as robotic rehabilitation, assistive living, industrial and other service applications. Exoskeletons for the upper limb are required to encompass the shoulder whilst achieving a range of motion so as to not impede the wearer, avoid collisions with the wearer, and avoid kinematic singularities during operation. However this ...

Abstract With an increase in the number of handicapped persons, there is a growing demand for human-friendly interface as mobility aids. To meet this need, we have developed two interfaces with using shoulder and head motion for powered wheelchair control. To acquire proper wheelchair control instruction signal, workspaces of shoulder and head are analyzed by magnetic position sensor. Two inter...

Decubital shoulder ulcers are lesions on the shoulders of sows kept in production systems, reported to have a relatively high prevalence, and to some extent be comparable with human pressure ulcers. In sows, the ulcers are caused by pressure inflicted by the flooring, leading to oxygen deficiency in the skin and the underlying tissue. This paper reviews existing knowledge about decubital should...

We investigated the potential use of EMG recordings from voluntary shoulder muscles in individuals with C5 spinal cord injury to automatically control the stimulation to paralyzed shoulder muscles in a taskappropriate manner. A musculoskeletal model of the human shoulder and elbow was used in simulation to train an artificial neural network (ANN) to automatically generate appropriate stimulatio...

....................................................................................................................................... viii Chapter 1: Introduction ...................................................................................................................1 Chapter 2: The Evolution of the Human Shoulder Suspension Apparatus: Biometrical and Biomechanical Analyses of Righ...

INTRODUCTION Fluoroscopic image-model registration, using either a single image or dual images, has been widely used to measure in-vivo human joint kinematics, such as the knee, hip, spine and shoulder. The critical step of this technique is the registration of the 3D joint model to the 2D images. An automatic 2D-3D image matching method has been validated as a useful and efficient method for t...

introduction: assessing quality of life for patients with shoulder instability may be essential because of the negative impacts of the disease on patient’s life. the aim of the present study, therefore,  was  to  assess  the  internal  validity  and  consistency,  test-retest  reliability,  and convergent validity of the persian version of the oxford shoulder instability score (osis). material ...