Decoding hand and wrist movement intention from chronic stroke survivors with hemiparesis using a user-friendly, wearable EMG-based neural interface.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Seventy-five percent of stroke survivors, caregivers, and health care professionals (HCP) believe current therapy practices are insufficient, specifically calling out the upper extremity as an area where innovation is needed to develop highly usable prosthetics/orthotics for the stroke population. A promising method for controlling upper extremity technologies is to infer movement intention non-invasively from surface electromyography (EMG). However, existing technologies are often limited to research settings and struggle to meet user needs.

Approach

To address these limitations, we have developed the NeuroLife^® EMG System, an investigational device which consists of a wearable forearm sleeve with 150 embedded electrodes and associated hardware and soft

SUBMITTER: Meyers EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10787968 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature