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The aim of this paper is to present the latest software and hardware improvements of a device aiming to assess hand rehabilitation in hemiparetic people. The proposed system can help the patients with neuromuscular diseases to train and evaluate their grip/pinch force control. The two external devices helping to train and assess grip and pinch control have been adapted from a former system, improvements being performed in terms of a new wireless subsystem, sensorial system and new software adapted to the newest PC operating systems. The new software proposes different degrees of difficulty in planned tasks aiming to provide a better assessment of the voluntary exerted grip and pinch at the impaired hand level.

This paper aims to present a new hardware component and software interface for a Grip Force Tracking System. During the rehabilitation process after e.g. a stroke any user needs a confirmation of his/her the treatment effectiveness. The Grip Force Tracking System (GFTS) is a system that helps the upper limb rehabilitative process and provide also a record of the improvements on a daily basis. The former GFTS has been only used under old versions of PC software operating systems (e.g. windows XP) and without any possibility to wireless collect relevant data. This new proposed GFTS system, which uses only the pinch and grip sensorial devices from the former GFTS system, has new facilities to operate under new operating systems, provides a new LabVIEW designed interface and wirelessly connects to a PC/laptop. This final design will be tested in a clinical environment aiming to help the patients with neuromuscular diseases to evaluate and train their grip force control.

Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) aims to induce programmed exercises in paralyzed limbs of people who suffered a stroke, in order to improve their rehabilitation process. Nowadays, surface pre-gelled transcutaneous electrodes are used to provide electrical pulses to the nerves which induce contractions to the targeted muscles. This paper presents a new type of electrodes which are embedded in knitted textiles which are easy to wear and to produce the same required muscles contractions. Their effectiveness has been clinically tested and the results show a good compliance with the patient's needs.

This paper deals with some research outcomes in the field of FESB 13 in the control group). The patients in the IHRG group showed a slight increase of average motor gain than the control group, assessed with Fugl-Meyer Assessment and Box and Blocks test.

This paper deals with the neuroprostheses set-up and their applications in stroke rehabilitation while using new manufactured knitted electrodes. The techniques to induce contraction to paralysed muscles in order that the upper limbs or lower limbs of stroke patients may perform functional movements, is called Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES). The muscles contraction algorithms are implemented with usual FES neurostimulators that are currently in use into the rehabilitation clinics. Final conclusions are outlined while comparing the FES-based procedures with current existing gelled electrodes and the new manufactured knitted electrodes.