Dynamic motor tracking is sensitive to subacute mTBI.

Effective screening for mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is critical to accurate diagnosis, intervention, and improving outcomes. However, detecting mTBI using conventional clinical techniques is difficult, time intensive, and subject to observer bias. We examine the use of a simple visuomotor tracking task as a screening tool for mTBI.

Characterization of compensatory trunk movements during prosthetic upper limb reaching tasks.

Objective: To characterize the compensatory movements of the trunk during functional reaching tasks performed by upper limb prosthesis users.

Design: Survey.

Setting: Clinical laboratory at a national rehabilitation hospital.

Feedforward control strategies of subjects with transradial amputation in planar reaching.

The rate of upper-limb amputations is increasing, and the rejection rate of prosthetic devices remains high. People with upper-limb amputation do not fully incorporate prosthetic devices into their activities of daily living. By understanding the reaching behaviors of prosthesis users, researchers can alter prosthetic devices and develop training protocols to improve the acceptance of prosthetic limbs.