Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Language
eng
Format of Original
4 p.
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Source Publication
2014 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)
Source ISSN
1557-170X
Original Item ID
doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944836
Abstract
Neurological deficits after cerebrovascular accidents very frequently disrupt the kinematics of voluntary movements with the consequent impact in daily life activities. Robotic methodologies enable the quantitative characterization of specific control deficits needed to understand the basis of functional impairments and to design effective rehabilitation therapies. In a group of right handed chronic stroke survivors (SS) with right side hemiparesis, intact proprioception, and differing levels of motor impairment, we used a robotic manipulandum to study right arm function during discrete point-to-point reaching movements and reciprocal out-and-back movements to visual targets. We compared these movements with those of neurologically intact individuals (NI). We analyzed the presence of secondary submovements in the initial (i.e. outward) trajectory portion of the two tasks and found that the SS with severe impairment (FM
Recommended Citation
Simo, Lucia S.; Piovesan, Davide; Laczko, Jozsef; Ghez, Claude; and Scheidt, Robert A., "Submovements During Reaching Movements after Stroke" (2014). Biomedical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications. 246.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bioengin_fac/246
Comments
Accepted version. Published as part of the proceedings of the conference, 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2014: 5357-5360. DOI. © 2014 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Used with permission.