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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"brachial plexus"”.
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Musculoskeletal Biomechanical Analysis of Brachial Plexus Injury and Treatment
The brachial plexus is a network of nerves that includes the motor neurons that supply the muscles of the upper limb, including muscles that cross the shoulder. Severe injury of the brachial plexus nerves can result in persistent muscle weakness or paralysis, even following extensive surgery and …
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Vision-Based Force Planning and Voice-Based Human-Machine Interface of an Assistive Robotic Exoskeleton Glove for Brachial Plexus Injuries
… exoskeleton glove designed for patients with Brachial Plexus Injuries (BPI). The aim of this research is to develop a force control method, an automatic force planning method, and a Human-Machine Interface (HMI) to refine the grasping functionalities of the exoskeleton glove, thus helping …
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Neural injury following traumatic anterior shoulder dislocation
In this study I reviewed 28 patients with brachial plexus lesions caused by shoulder dislocation. As far as can be established, this is the largest series reviewed in the literature to date. Contrary to most other reports, the neurological lesions involved the supraclavicular as well as the …
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A Rodent Animal Model for Forelimb to Lower Jaw Reorganization in Primary Somatosensory Cortex (SI) Barrel Field
… of human patients suffering from limb loss or brachial plexus avulsion injury, as well as patients that receive brachial plexus anesthesia, report phantom limb sensations/pain which are often associated with cortical reorganization. Patients with upper-limb deafferentation report sensations of …
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Design and Control of a Robotic Exoskeleton Glove Using a Neural Network Based Controller for Grasping Objects
Patients suffering from brachial plexus injury or other spinal cord related injuries often lose their hand functionality. They need a device which can help them to perform day to day activities by restoring some form of functionality to their hands. A popular solution to this problem are robotic …
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Biomedical and Psychosocial Factors Associated with Pain and Disability after Peripheral Nerve Injury
… workers’ compensation or litigation (p = 0.03), brachial plexus injuries (p < 0.001) and unemployed patients (p < 0.001). In the multivariable regression analysis, the final model explained 52.7% of the variance with these predictors; pain intensity (Beta = .230, p = 0.006), nerve injured (Beta = …
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Analysis of Force-Limiting Capabilities of Football Neck Collars
… their effectiveness at preventing transient brachial plexopathy and other neck injuries due to football impacts. Transient brachial plexopathy, commonly called a stinger or burner, is an injury to the brachial plexus. As many as 65% of collegiate football players will receive suffer such an …
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The Effect of Shoulder Variation On Imrt and Smartarc For Head and Neck Cancer
… neck. Inferior shifts elevated the dose to the brachial plexus by 0.6-4.1 Gy. SmartArc plans showed similar loss of target coverage as IMRT plans.</p> <p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> The position of the shoulder can have an impact on target coverage and critical structure dose. Shoulder …
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Paediatric regional anaesthetic procedures: clinical anatomy competence, pitfalls and complications
… epidural block, the axillary approach to the brachial plexus, femoral nerve block and the ilioinguinal/ iliohypogastric nerve block. A referenced clinical anatomy knowledge base was developed by an extensive literature review of the selected procedures under the following headings: …
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Heart Rate Variability analysis in patients undergoing local anesthesia
… for the first time the effect of HRV during Brachial plexus block (local anaesthesia), applied using the axillary approach. The hypothesis was that, such investigation will enable the detection of possible changes in the dynamics of the cardiovascular system due to the intravenous …
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Robust Fat and Fluid Suppression in MR Imaging: Technical Developments and Advanced Clinical Applications
Pages xxiii-xxiv are misnumbered as pages xxi-xxii.