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Motor Control is defined as the process of initiating, directing, and grading purposeful voluntary movement. Shumway-Cook has defined motor control as the ability to regulate mechanisms essential to movement. Motor control and learning help therapists to understand the process behind movements, motor tasks and skills. By acknowledging the theories of motor learning and control and integrating them into day- to- day practice, therapists will have better chance of: identifying... issues in motor performance,developing treatment strategies to help patients remediate performance problems, and planning programmes that include a new movement, or the reacquisition and/or modification of movement to be taught in such a way that it is, consistent and transferrable and finally evaluating the effectiveness of intervention strategies employed. It is important that therapists identify the appropriate motor learning strategy and motor control theory to get optimal and effective results. #motorlearning #neurorehab #sparkcentre #durhamregion #durhamcollege #mcmasteruniversity #recoverytech See more

The field of neurotechnology has been around for nearly half a century but has only reached maturity in the last twenty years. The advent of brain imaging revolutionized the field, allowing researchers to directly monitor the brain's activities during experiments. Neurotechnology has made significant impact on society, though its presence is so commonplace that many do not realize its ubiquity. From pharmaceutical drugs to brain scanning, neurotechnology affects nearly all in...dustrialized people either directly or indirectly, be it from drugs for depression, sleep, ADD, or anti-neurotics to cancer scanning, stroke rehabilitation, and much more.Therapeutically it can help improve stroke victims' motor coordination, improve brain function, reduce epileptic episodes (see epilepsy), improve patients with degenerative motor diseases (Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, ALS), and can even help alleviate phantom pain perception. #neurotechnology #neurorehab #sparkcentre #durhamregion #durhamcollege #mcmasteruniversity #recoverytech See more

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Stroke is a disabling disease that requires extensive work of rehabilitation to improve the quality of life of patients. In order to increase the compliance and motivation of the patients, stroke rehabilitation exercises have been developed in a game-like structure using a smartphone. These games were designed to promote and evaluate different movements of the upper limbs and their level of difficulty is adaptable to each patient's impairment level. The feasibility of the use... of smartphone built-in inertial sensors to monitor the execution of stroke rehabilitation exercises has been assessed. The accuracy of the angles measured decreased along time and for higher angles, nevertheless the differences between real and measured angles are within acceptable limits. The usability tests in a post-stroke patient case demonstrate the applicability and motivational potential of the developed games. Gamification of stroke rehabilitation exercises using a smartphone is feasible and may be valuable for stroke rehabilitation. #stroke #strokerehab #strokerecovery #sparkcentre #durhamregion #durhamcollege ##mcmasteruniversity #recoverytech See more

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