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MotiMove is a battery-powered general-purpose transcutaneous functional electrical stimulator (tFES) that comes out of more than 40-year academic research at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. MotiMove can be used for therapeutic intervention, clinical research, and support of fitness training in different application modes (cycling, rowing, grasping, walking, and exercising). Unlike other commercially available tFES devices, it allows real-time open or closed-loop control of stimulation parameters to 8 separate current sources from a multitude of sensors. Recent studies with MotiMove in healthy people and people with motor diseases have shown the applicability of the MotiMove stimulator for different users in various environments. Future development will focus on FES clothes with dry interface electrodes and integrated sensors that combined with MotiMove will make a compact easy-donning testbed for real-time FES control algorithms. © 2022 International Center for Artificial Organ and Transplantation (ICAOT) and Wiley Periodicals LLC.

MotiMove is a battery-powered general-purpose transcutaneous functional electrical stimulator (tFES) that comes out of more than 40-year academic research at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. MotiMove can be used for therapeutic intervention, clinical research, and support of fitness training in different application modes (cycling, rowing, grasping, walking, and exercising). Unlike other commercially available tFES devices, it allows real-time open or closed-loop control of stimulation parameters to 8 separate current sources from a multitude of sensors. Recent studies with MotiMove in healthy people and people with motor diseases have shown the applicability of the MotiMove stimulator for different users in various environments. Future development will focus on FES clothes with dry interface electrodes and integrated sensors that combined with MotiMove will make a compact easy-donning testbed for real-time FES control algorithms. © 2022 International Center for Artificial Organ and Transplantation (ICAOT) and Wiley Periodicals LLC.

Increased muscle tone and exaggerated tendon reflexes characterize most of the individuals after a spinal cord injury (SCI). We estimated seven parameters from the pendulum test and used them to compare with the Ashworth modified scale of spasticity grades in three populations (retrospective study) to assess their spasticity. Three ASIA B SCI patients who exercised on a stationary FES bicycle formed group F, six ASIA B SCI patients who received only conventional therapy were in the group C, and six healthy individuals constituted the group H. The parameters from the pendulum test were used to form a single measure, termed the PT score, for each subject. The pendulum test parameters show differences between the F and C groups, but not between the F and H groups, however, statistical significance was limited due to the small study size. Results show a small deviation from the mean for all parameters in the F group and substantial deviations from the mean for the parameters in the C group. PT scores show significant differences between the F and C groups and the C and H groups and no differences between the F and C groups. The correlation between the PT score and Ashworth score was 0.88. © 2017 IEEE.

Increased muscle tone and exaggerated tendon reflexes characterize most of the individuals after a spinal cord injury (SCI). We estimated seven parameters from the pendulum test and used them to compare with the Ashworth modified scale of spasticity grades in three populations (retrospective study) to assess their spasticity. Three ASIA B SCI patients who exercised on a stationary FES bicycle formed group F, six ASIA B SCI patients who received only conventional therapy were in the group C, and six healthy individuals constituted the group H. The parameters from the pendulum test were used to form a single measure, termed the PT score, for each subject. The pendulum test parameters show differences between the F and C groups, but not between the F and H groups, however, statistical significance was limited due to the small study size. Results show a small deviation from the mean for all parameters in the F group and substantial deviations from the mean for the parameters in the C group. PT scores show significant differences between the F and C groups and the C and H groups and no differences between the F and C groups. The correlation between the PT score and Ashworth score was 0.88. © 2017 IEEE.

Increased muscle tone and exaggerated tendon reflexes characterize most of the individuals after a spinal cord injury (SCI). We estimated seven parameters from the pendulum test and used them to compare with the Ashworth modified scale of spasticity grades in three populations (retrospective study) to assess their spasticity. Three ASIA B SCI patients who exercised on a stationary FES bicycle formed group F, six ASIA B SCI patients who received only conventional therapy were in the group C, and six healthy individuals constituted the group H. The parameters from the pendulum test were used to form a single measure, termed the PT score, for each subject. The pendulum test parameters show differences between the F and C groups, but not between the F and H groups, however, statistical significance was limited due to the small study size. Results show a small deviation from the mean for all parameters in the F group and substantial deviations from the mean for the parameters in the C group. PT scores show significant differences between the F and C groups and the C and H groups and no differences between the F and C groups. The correlation between the PT score and Ashworth score was 0.88. © 2017 IEEE.

Increased muscle tone and exaggerated tendon reflexes characterize most of the individuals after a spinal cord injury (SCI). We estimated seven parameters from the pendulum test and used them to compare with the Ashworth modified scale of spasticity grades in three populations (retrospective study) to assess their spasticity. Three ASIA B SCI patients who exercised on a stationary FES bicycle formed group F, six ASIA B SCI patients who received only conventional therapy were in the group C, and six healthy individuals constituted the group H. The parameters from the pendulum test were used to form a single measure, termed the PT score, for each subject. The pendulum test parameters show differences between the F and C groups, but not between the F and H groups, however, statistical significance was limited due to the small study size. Results show a small deviation from the mean for all parameters in the F group and substantial deviations from the mean for the parameters in the C group. PT scores show significant differences between the F and C groups and the C and H groups and no differences between the F and C groups. The correlation between the PT score and Ashworth score was 0.88. © 2017 IEEE.