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The assessment of stroke patients is a long lasting process in which physicians estimate the impairment import of the patients through clinical scales and physiological exams. This is a crucial phase for defining the patient treatment as well as monitoring the recovery process. In order to support the whole set of operations involved in the assessment, the authors proposed a simple evaluation tool that easily allows physicians to collect performance, muscles activity and upper-limb kinematic data from patients and thus extract clinically useful information. Preliminary results obtained form 3 healthy subjects and 2 patients demonstrated the suitability of the proposed system for collecting relevant information in just one short session.
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This work has been partially founded by the PRIN-2015 ModuLimb - Prot. 2015HFWRYY.
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Camardella, C. et al. (2019). Simple Tool for Functional and Physiological Stroke Patients Assessment. In: Masia, L., Micera, S., Akay, M., Pons, J. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation III. ICNR 2018. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01845-0_155
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