ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2022
Vibrotactile enhancement in hand rehabilitation has a reinforcing effect on sensorimotor brain activities.
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- Vibrotactile stimulation for upper-limb neurorehabilitation and sensorimotor training: a systematic review of clinical and mechanistic evidence.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2026Pooled it
- A systematic review of functional near-infrared spectroscopy-based task paradigms in stroke rehabilitation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
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- Vibrotactile Feedback Strategies for Trunk-Stabilizing Exercises in a Home-Based Scenario: Qualitative Interview Study Among Physiotherapists.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Post-Stroke Rehabilitation: Neurophysiology Processes of Bilateral Movement Training and Interlimb Coupling-A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- A Sensor-Based Classification for Neuromotor Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Effects of tactile feedback in post-stroke hand rehabilitation on functional connectivity and cortical activation: an fNIRS study.Biomedical optics express · 2025Article
- Vibration stimulation enhances robustness in teleoperation robot system with EEG and eye-tracking hybrid control.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Somatosensory integration in robot-assisted motor restoration post-stroke.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Article
- Bibliometric Analysis of Granger Causality Studies.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Cerebral Hemodynamic Changes during Unaffected Handgrip Exercises in Stroke Patients: An fNIRS Study.Brain sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Objective: Stroke patients often suffer from hand dysfunction or loss of tactile perception, which in turn interferes with hand rehabilitation. Tactile-enhanced multi-sensory feedback rehabilitation is an approach worth considering, but its effectiveness has not been well studied. By using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to analyze the causal activity patterns in the sensorimotor cortex, the present study aims to investigate the cortical hemodynamic effects of hand rehabilitation training when tactile stimulation is applied, and to provide a basis for rehabilitation program development. Methods: A vibrotactile enhanced pneumatically actuated hand rehabilitation device was tested on the less-preferred hand of 14 healthy right-handed subjects. The training tasks consisted of move hand and observe video (MO), move hand and vibration stimulation (MV), move hand, observe video, and vibration stimulation (MOV), and a contrast resting task. Region of interest (ROI), a laterality index (LI), and causal brain network analysis methods were used to explore the brain's cortical blood flow response to a multi-sensory feedback rehabilitation task from multiple perspectives. Results: (1) A more pronounced contralateral activation in the right-brain region occurred under the MOV stimulation. Rehabilitation tasks containing vibrotactile enhancement (MV and MOV) had significantly more oxyhemoglobin than the MO task at 5 s after the task starts, indicating faster contralateral activation in sensorimotor brain regions. (2) Five significant lateralized channel connections were generated under the MV and MOV tasks ( Conclusion: Vibrotactile cutaneous stimulation as a tactile enhancement can produce a stronger stimulation of the brain's sensorimotor brain areas, promoting the establishment of neural pathways, and causing a richer effect between the left and right cerebral hemispheres. The combination of kinesthetic, vibrotactile, and visual stimulation can achieve a more prominent training efficiency from the perspective of functional cerebral hemodynamics.
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