• 대한한의학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.48-83
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• 1996

Our conclusions for function evaluation tools of Stroke patients are as follows. 1. Evaluating tools of Activities of Daily Living, Katz Index, Barthel Index, Modified Barthel Index have high validity and reliability because of ease of measuring, high accuracy, consistency, sensitivity and sufficient stastistics, but they mainly measure motor function except sense, mentation, language, and social conception. Therefore cerebrovascular disease and brain injury in trauma patients with lacked acknowledgement and sensation, we are not able to apply these tools. 2. PULSES Profile is a useful scale for measuring the patient's over-all status, upper and lower limb functions, sensory components, excretary functions, and intellectual and emotional adaptabilities. It is recognized as a good, useful tool to evaluate patient's whole function. 3. Motor Assessment Scale was designed to measure the progress of stroke patients. The scale was supplemented with upper arm function items. We believe that the Motor Assessment Scale could be a useful evaluation tool with inter-rater reliability ,test-retest reliability. 4. The existing evaluation tools, Katz Index, Barthel Index, Modified Barthel Index, PULSES Profile, Motor Assessment Scale, mainly measured the rehabilitational motor function of sequela of cerebrovascular patients. On the other hand CNS & INH stroke scale can measure cerebrovascular disease patient's neurologic deficits and over-all stautus, which are recognition ability, speech status, motor function, sensory function, activities of daily living. Those scales have been recognized as useful tools to measure function of cerebrovascular disease patients and have increased in use. 5. Every function evaluation tool was recognized to have some validity and inter-rater, test-retest reliability in items of each evaluation tool and total scores of each evaluation tools, but it is thought that none of these scales have been fully validated and proved reliable. Therefore afterward, the development of a highly reliable rating system may best be accomplished by a careful comparison of several tools, using the same patients and the same observers in order to choose the most reliable items from each. 6. Ideal evaluation tools must have the following conditions; (1) It should show the objective functional statues at the same time. (2) It should be repeated consecutively to know changed function status. (3) It should be easy to observe the treatment program. (4) It should have the same result with another rater to help rater exchange information with treatment team members. (5) It should be practical and simple. (6) The patient should not suffer from the observer.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권12호
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• pp.1106-1114
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• 2012

To achieve synchronized motion between a wearable robot and a human user, the redundancy must be resolved in the same manner by both systems. According to the seven DOF (Degrees of Freedom) human arm model composed of the shoulder, elbow, and wrist joints, positioning and orientating the wrist in space is a task requiring only six DOFs. Due to this redundancy, a given task can be completed by multiple arm configurations, and thus there exists no unique mathematical solution to the inverse kinematics. This paper presents analysis on the kinematic and dynamic aspect of the human arm movement and their effect on the redundancy resolution of the human arm based on a seven DOF manipulator model. The redundancy of the arm is expressed mathematically by defining the swivel angle. The final form of swivel angle can be represented as a linear combination of two different swivel angles achieved by optimizing different cost functions based on kinematic and dynamic criteria. The kinematic criterion is to maximize the projection of the longest principal axis of the manipulability ellipsoid for the human arm on the vector connecting the wrist and the virtual target on the head region. The dynamic criterion is to minimize the mechanical work done in the joint space for each two consecutive points along the task space trajectory. As a first step, the redundancy based on the kinematic criterion will be thoroughly studied based on the motion capture data analysis. Experimental results indicate that by using the proposed redundancy resolution criterion in the kinematic level, error between the predicted and the actual swivel angle acquired from the motor control system is less than five degrees.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제30권7호
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• pp.831-841
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• 2001

Objective : Somatosensory evoked potentials(SSEPs) have been used widely both experimentally and clinically to monitor the function of central nervous system and peripheral nervous system. Studies of SSEPs have reported the various recording techniques and patterns of SSEP. The previous SSEP studies used scalp recording electrodes, showed mean vector potentials which included relatively constant brainstem potentials(far-field potentials) and unstable thalamocortical pathway potentials(near-field potentials). Even in invasive SSEP recording methods, thalamocortical potentials were variable according to the kinds, depths, and distance of two electrodes. So they were regarded improper method for monitoring of upper level of brainstem. The present study was conducted to investigate the characteristics of somatosensory evoked field potentials(SSEFPs) of the cerebral cortex that evoked by hindlimb stimulation using ball electrode and the pathways of SSEFP by recording the potentials simultaneously in the cortex, VPL nucleus of thalamus, and nucleus gracilis. Methods : In the first experiment, a specially designed recording electrode was inserted into the cerebral cortex perpendicular to the cortical surface in order to recording the constant cortical field potentials and SSEFPs mapped from different areas of somatosensory cortex were analyzed. In the second experiment, SSEPs were recorded in the ipsilateral nucleus gracilis, the contralateral ventroposterolateral thalamic nucleus(VPL), and the cerebral cortex along the conduction pathway of somatosensory information. Results : In the first experiment, we could constantly obtain the SSEFPs in cerebral cortex following the transcutaneous electrical stimulation of the hind limb, and it revealed that the first large positive and following negative waves were largest at the 2mm posterior and 2mm lateral to the bregma in the contralateral somatosensory cortex. The second experiment showed that the SSEPs were conducted by way of posterior column somatosensory pathway and thalamocortical pathway and that specific patterns of the SSEPs were recorded from the nucleus gracilis, VPL, and cerebral cortex. Conclusion : The specially designed recording electrode was found to be very useful in recording the localized SSEFPs and the transcutaneous electrical stimulation using ball electrode was effective in evoking SSEPs. The characteristic shapes, latencies, and conduction velocities of each potentials are expected to be used the fundamental data for the future study of brain functions, including the hydrocephalus model, middle cerebral artery ischemia model, and so forth.

• 대한감각통합치료학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.63-73
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• 2015

목적 : Interactive Metronome(IM) 훈련프로그램이 ADHD 아동의 타이밍과 주의력 그리고 운동기능에 미치는 영향을 사례보고 하고자 한다. 연구방법 : ADHD진단을 받은 일반초등학교 1학년에 재학 중인 2008년생 남아(사례1)와 일반중학교 2학년에 재학 중인 2001년생 남아(사례2)를 대상으로 2015년 1월 12일부터 2월 6일까지 4주간 IM 훈련프로그램을 적용하였다. 본 연구에서는 IM Pro 9.0을 이용하여 타이밍 향상을 위한 중재로 사용하였다. 총 3주간, 주 5회, 총 15회기, 회기 당 50-60분간 적용하였다. 또한 IM 훈련프로그램의 중재 효과를 알아보기 위해 중재 전후에 타이밍, 주의력, 운동기능을 평가하였는데 평가 도구로는 타이밍 향상을 평가하기 위해 IM의 Long Form Assessment(LFA)를 사용하였다. 주의력을 평가하기 위해 Rhehacom 판별 검사(RehaCom screening module)를 사용하였고, 운동 기능을 평가하기 위해 Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency 2판(BOT-2)를 사용하였다. 결과 : LFA의 타이밍 능력의 평가 결과는 사례 아동 모두에서 전체 운동과제의 평균 반응 속도가 감소되어 타이밍 기능이 향상되었음을 알 수 있었다. 주의력은 사례1 아동에서 시각적 분리 주의력(visual attention division), 편측무시(neglect) 그리고 충동 조절(response inhibition) 기능이 향상되었고. 사례2 아동에서는 지속적 주의력(sustained attention) 기능이 향상되었다. 운동기능은 BOT-2 단축폼(short form)의 백분위(%ile Rank)가 사례1 아동은 42%ile에서 96%ile로 향상되었고, 사례2 아동은 21%ile에서 66%ile로 향상되었다. 두 사례 아동 모두 양측 협응(bilateral coordination)항목과 상지 협응(upper-limb coordination)항목의 등가연령이 향상되었다. 결론 : 본 사례보고는 IM 훈련프로그램이 ADHD 아동의 타이밍, 주의력, 운동기능에 긍정적 효과가 있음을 시사한다.