After complete or partial paralysis due to stroke or spinal cord injury, electrical nerve
stimulation can be used to artificially generate functional muscle contractions. This …

Annually, 15 million people worldwide suffer a stroke, and 5 million are left permanently
disabled. A stroke is usually caused when a blood clot blocks a vessel in the brain and acts …

Closed-loop neuroprostheses show promise in restoring motion in individuals with
neurological conditions. However, conventional activation strategies based on functional …

Known as the bible of biomedical engineering, The Biomedical Engineering Handbook,
Fourth Edition, sets the standard against which all other references of this nature are …

To improve the design and increase the effectiveness of electrical stimulation-induced leg
cycle ergometry, it is necessary to have a better understanding of the factors that influence …

A detailed model of the human knee was developed to predict shank motion induced by
functional neuromuscular stimulation (FNS). A discrete-time model is used to characterize …

A new biophysically based mathematical model for a human musculotendon system is
presented. This model is developed specifically for skeletal muscle activated by functional …

To restore functional use of paralyzed muscles by automatically controlled stimulation, an
accurate quantitative model of the stimulated muscles is desirable. The most commonly …

Nine spiral nerve cuff electrodes were implanted in two human subjects for up to three years
with no adverse functional effects. The objective of this study was to look at the long term …

This study deals with the recruitment characteristics of unfatigued electrically stimulated
quadriceps muscles of paraplegic subjects and with the time-dependent force output of …