One of the most important case in humanoid robot designing is hand, which it consider as an country development. High percentage of robot work quality depend on hand capability. A robot function increase with hand movement. One of important movement in artificial hand capability relate to fingers lateral movement. This case has more effect intake of special objects such as round shape or moving...

objectives: this study aimed to compare the combination of cimt and bim training with cimt in fine motor skills of children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. methods: 24 children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy aged between 60 and 120 months participated in this rct study. they were randomly assigned into cimt and bim training (n=12, four males, eight females mean age±standard deviation=93.58±14.2...

BACKGROUND Recovery of function following stroke plateaus in about 1 year, typically leaving upper arm function better than that in the hand. Since there is competition among body parts for territory in the sensorimotor cortex, even limited activity of the upper arm might prevent the hand from gaining more control, particularly when the territory is reduced in size because of the stroke. Deaffe...

OBJECTIVE Prediction of outcome of ambulatory capacity and hand function in tetraplegic patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) using neurologic examination, according to the protocol of the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) and motor-evoked potentials (MEP). DESIGN Correlation study on a prospective cohort. SETTING SCI center, university hospital. PATIENTS Thirty-six patients with...

OBJECTIVE Afferent input is proposed to mediate its effect on motor functions by modulating the excitability of the motor cortex. We aimed to clarify - in a longitudinal study - how afferent input affects motor cortex excitability after stroke and how it is associated with recovery of hand function. METHODS The motor cortex excitability was studied by measuring the reactivity of the motor cor...

Purpose: Some new methods of treatment focus on using magnetic stimulation as a means of induction currents in the brain to produce therapeutic effects. The aim of this clinical trial was to determine the effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) plus routine rehabilitation on hand grip and wrist motor function in hemiplegic patients.Materials and Methods: Twelve hemiplegic...

Objectives: The present study examined the effect of home-based handling training of mothers on the improvement of gross motor function of children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). Methods: In this randomized control trial, 42 children with CP (5-12 years old) were randomly assigned into the intervention and control groups. Data were collected using the Gross Motor Function Classification System and ...

Hand motor impairment persists after stroke. Sensory inputs may facilitate recovery of motor function. This pilot study tested the effectiveness of tactile sensory noise in improving hand motor function in chronic stroke survivors with tactile sensory deficits, using a repeated measures design. Sensory noise in the form of subthreshold, white noise, mechanical vibration was applied to the wrist...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The mechanism of reorganization after stroke remains uncertain. Several studies that have measured reaction time (RT) delay by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) have revealed some substrates responsible for the reorganization of motor recovery. In this study, we evaluated the RT delay and inhibitory functions by examining the silent period (SP) in the primary motor ...