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Sensory-Motor Neurostimulation to Enhance Exosuit Performance

Silvestro Micera, Stanisa Raspopovic, Andrea Crema, Giacomo Valle

Exosuits typically provide limited mechanical support and rely on a user's residual functional ability. However, people with neurological impairments often suffer from both motor and sensory deficits that limit the assistance an exosuit can provide. To ove ...

IEEE2023

Novel personalized treatment strategy for patients with chronic stroke with severe upper-extremity impairment: The first patient of the AVANCER trial

Sylvain Jean-François Harquel, Andrea Crema, Elena Beanato, Claudia Bigoni, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Giorgia Giulia Evangelista, Sarah Bernardina Zandvliet

Background: Around 25% of patients who have had a stroke suffer from severe upper-limb impairment and lack effective rehabilitation strategies. The AVANCER proof-of-concept clinical trial (NCT04448483) tackles this issue through an intensive and personaliz ...

CELL PRESS2023

A Novel Patient-Tailored, Cumulative Neurotechnology-Based Therapy for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation in Severely Impaired Chronic Stroke Patients: The AVANCER Study Protocol

Andrea Crema, Elena Beanato, Claudia Bigoni, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Giorgia Giulia Evangelista, Sarah Bernardina Zandvliet

Effective, patient-tailored rehabilitation to restore upper-limb motor function in severely impaired stroke patients is still missing. If suitably combined and administered in a personalized fashion, neurotechnologies offer a large potential to assist reha ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Neuromuscular electrical stimulation restores upper limb sensory-motor functions and body representations in chronic stroke survivors

Olaf Blanke, Silvestro Micera, Andrea Crema, Andrea Serino, Michela Bassolino, Maria Colombo

2022

Body and peripersonal space representations in chronic stroke patients with upper limb motor deficits

Olaf Blanke, Silvestro Micera, Andrea Crema, Andrea Serino, Elisa Canzoneri, Michela Bassolino, Matteo Franza

The continuous stream of multisensory information between the brain and the body during body-environment interactions is crucial to maintain the updated representation of the perceived dimensions of body parts (metric body representation) and the space aro ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2022

Reactive Exercises with Interactive Objects: Interim Analysis of a Randomized Trial on Task-Driven NMES Grasp Rehabilitation for Subacute and Early Chronic Stroke Patients

Silvestro Micera, Andrea Crema, Flavio Raschella, Ivan Furfaro

Enriched environments and tools are believed to promote grasp rehabilitation after stroke. We designed S2, an interactive grasp rehabilitation system consisting of smart objects, custom orthoses for selective grasp constraining, and an electrode array syst ...

MDPI2021

Analysis system and method for analysing the movement of a portion of the body and/or of a human prosthesis

Silvestro Micera, Andrea Crema, Fiorenzo Artoni

An analysis method (200) for analysing the pressure exerted by a portion of the body and/or of a human prosthesis comprises the following steps: sampling data generated by the portion of the body and/or the human prosthesis during a threshold calibration p ...

2021

An Event-Driven Closed-Loop System for Real-Time FES Control

Silvestro Micera, Andrea Crema, Danilo Demarchi

Active functional rehabilitation procedures, exoskeleton application and prosthesis employment are essential tools for the society life reinstatement of subjects affected by neuromuscular disorders or victims of serious physical accident. In this paper we ...

IEEE2019

A Wearable Multi-Site System for NMES-Based Hand Function Restoration

Silvestro Micera, Andrea Crema, Flavio Raschella, Ivan Furfaro

2018

Wearable systems for grasp rehabilitation after stroke

Andrea Crema

Stroke is the leading cause of long term disability, causing both motor and cognitive impairments. Stroke impacts both motor and somatosensory capabilities of the individual, causing distorted perception of the environment and of the body. Consequently per ...

EPFL2017

How the selection of muscles influences their synergies? A preliminary study using real data

Matteo Mancuso, Elvira Pirondini, Silvestro Micera, Andrea Crema, Martina Coscia

Muscle synergies have been proposed as building blocks that simplify the construction of movements, and as a method to study motor behavior. However, the pre-processing of the EMG signals and the factorization algorithm may impact on their extraction and m ...

Ieee2013

MUNDUS project: MUltimodal Neuroprosthesis for daily Upper limb Support

Silvestro Micera, Andrea Crema, Claudia Casellato

Background: MUNDUS is an assistive framework for recovering direct interaction capability of severely motor impaired people based on arm reaching and hand functions. It aims at achieving personalization, modularity and maximization of the user's direct inv ...

BioMed Central2013