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Wearable technology in physical medicine and rehabilitation

Edited by: Paolo Bonato

An article collection in Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

This collection of articles has not been sponsored and articles have undergone the journal's standard peer-review process overseen by the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors. The Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors declare no competing interests.

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  1. In this paper we describe LiveNet, a flexible wearable platform intended for long-term ambulatory health monitoring with real-time data streaming and context classification. Based on the MIT Wearable Computing...

    Authors: Michael Sung, Carl Marci and Alex Pentland
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2005 2:17
  2. Advances in miniature sensor technology have led to the development of wearable systems that allow one to monitor motor activities in the field. A variety of classifiers have been proposed in the past, but lit...

    Authors: Delsey M Sherrill, Marilyn L Moy, John J Reilly and Paolo Bonato
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2005 2:16
  3. Intelligent management of wearable applications in rehabilitation requires an understanding of the current context, which is constantly changing over the rehabilitation process because of changes in the person...

    Authors: Yu Wang and Jack M Winters
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2005 2:15
  4. Good balance depends on accurate and adequate information from the senses. One way to substitute missing sensory information for balance is with biofeedback technology. We previously reported that audio-biofee...

    Authors: Marco Dozza, Lorenzo Chiari, Becky Chan, Laura Rocchi, Fay B Horak and Angelo Cappello
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2005 2:13
  5. Monitoring body kinematics has fundamental relevance in several biological and technical disciplines. In particular the possibility to exactly know the posture may furnish a main aid in rehabilitation topics. ...

    Authors: Alessandro Tognetti, Federico Lorussi, Raphael Bartalesi, Silvana Quaglini, Mario Tesconi, Giuseppe Zupone and Danilo De Rossi
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2005 2:8
  6. Recent technological advances in integrated circuits, wireless communications, and physiological sensing allow miniature, lightweight, ultra-low power, intelligent monitoring devices. A number of these devices...

    Authors: Emil Jovanov, Aleksandar Milenkovic, Chris Otto and Piet C de Groen
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2005 2:6
  7. This paper provides an overview of initial research conducted in the development of pressure-sensitive foam and its application in wearable sensing. The foam sensor is composed of polypyrrole-coated polyuretha...

    Authors: Lucy E Dunne, Sarah Brady, Barry Smyth and Dermot Diamond
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2005 2:4
  8. The pulse oximeter, a medical device capable of measuring blood oxygen saturation (SpO2), has been shown to be a valuable device for monitoring patients in critical conditions. In order to incorporate the tech...

    Authors: Yong-sheng Yan, Carmen CY Poon and Yuan-ting Zhang
    Citation: Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2005 2:3