Mark Ferraro

TL;DR: A proposed method to achieve this goal is a novel performance-based impedance control algorithm, which is triggered via speed, time, or EMG, which has already noted one very strong benefit, a significant reduction in arm tone.

TL;DR: Basic engineering aspects of a novel robotic module that extends the approach to anti-gravity movements out of the horizontal plane and a pilot study with 10 outpatients demonstrate that the protocol was safe and well tolerated with no patient presenting any adverse effect.

TL;DR: Device-delivered continuous passive range of motion may offer an enhanced benefit for some adverse symptom reduction in the hemiplegic arm after stroke over traditional self-range of motion exercise.

TL;DR: The interrater reliability and criterion validity of the MSS performed in patients admitted to a rehabilitation hospital 21 ± 4 days after stroke is examined.

TL;DR: New pilot data from novel devices to move the wrist demonstrate benefit and suggest that successive improvement of the function of the arm progressing to the distal muscles may eventually lead to significant disability reduction.