Proceedings

8th Vienna International Workshop on

Functional Electrical Stimulation

Vienna, Austria, September 10-13, 2004

Edited by

Manfred Bijak

Winfried Mayr

Melitta Pichler

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Department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics

Medical University of Vienna, Vienna Medical School

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

SESSION 1 MOTOR CONTROL AND SPINAL CORD STIMULATION (SCS 1)

M. Dimitrijevic, I. Persy, C. Forstner, H. Kern, M. Dimitrijevic (Houston, USA)

MOTOR CONTROL IN THE HUMAN SPINAL CORD

F. Rattay, K. Minassian, B. Jilge, C. Hofer, H. Kern, M. Dimitrijevic (Vienna, Austria)

NEUROMODELING AND THE HUMAN SPINAL CORD MOTOR CONTROL:

NEURAL RESPONSES TO EPIDURAL STIMULATION

K. Minassian, F. Rattay, M. Vogelauer, H. Kern, M. Dimitrijevic (Vienna, Austria)

INITIATION AND CONTROL OF LOCOMOTOR LIKE MOVEMENTS IN

COMPLETE SCI PERSONS BY EPIDURAL SPINAL CORD STIMULATION

R. Herman, W. Willis, J. He, M. Carharts (Phoenix, US)

METABOLIC AND PERFORMANCE EVENTS FOLLOWING EPIDURAL SPINAL

CORD STIMULATION (ESCS) IN SUBJECTS WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY

SESSION 2 MOTOR CONTROL AND SPINAL CORD STIMULATION (SCS 2)

O. Nikitin, Y. Gerasimenko, D. Okhocimski, A. Platonov, L. Ilieva-Mitutsova

(St.Petersburg, Russia)

COMBINED CENTRAL AND PERIPHERAL ACTIVATION OF CPG RESULTS IN

EFFECTIVE RESTORATION OF LOCOMOTION IN SPINALIZED CATS

P. Musienko, I. Bogacheva, Y. Gerasimenko (Sankt-Petersburg, Russia)

MECHANISMS OF CPG ACTIVATION IN DECEREBRATED AND SPINALIZED

CATS UNDER EPIDURAL SPINAL CORD STIMULATION

I. Greshnova (Sankt-Petersburg, Russia)

TRANSVERTEBRAL MICROPOLARIZATION IN THE COMPLEX TRIATING OF

THE SPINAL DISORDERS: CLINIC EFFECTIVENESS

N. Scherbakova, I. Bogacheva, V. Kucher, P. Musienko, Y. Gerasimenko

(St.Petersburg, Russia)

EMG SIGNAL ANALYSIS OF THE LOCOMOTORY ACTIVITY EVOKED BY

EPIDURAL SPINAL CORD STIMULATION

SESSION 3 FES OF DENERVATED MUSCULATURE 1

W. Mayr, C. Hofer, D. Rafolt, M. Bijak, H. Lanmueller, M. Reichel, S. Sauermann,

E. Unger (Vienna, Austria)

THE EU-PROJECT RISE: GENERAL OVERVIEW AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS

H. Kern, M. Mödlin, C. Forstner (Vienna, Austria)

THE RISE PATIENT STUDY: FES IN THE TREATMENT OF FLACCID

PARAPLEGIA

SESSION 4 FES OF DENERVATED MUSCULATURE 2

U. Carraro, M. Zanin, K. Rossini, M. Fabbian, S. Caccavale, W. Mayr, C. Hofer, H. Kern,

C. Forstner, U. Hoellwarth, M. Vogelauer (Padova, Italy)

SUSTAINED MYOFIBER REGENERATION IN HUMAN LONG-TERM

DENERVATED MUSCLES DECREASES AFTER FES-INDUCED MUSCLE

RECOVERY IN SCI SUBJECTS

S. Boncompagni, H. Kern, W. Mayr, U. Carraro, F. Protasi (Chieti, Italy)

DEGENERATION OF CHRONICALLY DENERVATED HUMAN MUSCLE IS

REVERSIBLE

W. Rossmanith, R. Bittner, K. Moser-Thier, H. Gruber (Vienna, Austria)

METABOLIC CAPACITY OF HUMAN LONG-TERM DENERVATED MUSCLES

E. Gallasch, D. Rafolt, G. Kinz, M. Fend, H. Kern, W. Mayr (Graz, Austria)

EVALUATION OF FES INDUCED ELASTIC AND VISCOUS JOINT MOMENTS IN

PARAPLEGICS WITH DENERVATED MUSCLES

M. Reichel, J. Martinek, W. Mayr, F. Rattay (Vienna, Austria)

FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF DENERVATED SKELETAL

MUSCLE FIBERS IN 3D HUMAN THIGH - MODELING AND SIMULATION

A. Musaro, C. Giacinti, G. Dobrowolny, L. Pelosi, L. Barberi, M. Molinaro (Rome, Italy)

INDUCING MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY AS A THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY FOR

MUSCLE WASTING: ROLE OF IGF-1

SESSION 5 FES OF DENERVATED MUSCULATURE 3

S. Salmons, Z. Ashley, H. Sutherland, M. Russold, F. Li, J. Jarvis (Liverpool, United

Kingdom)

FES OF DENERVATED MUSCLES: BASIC ISSUES

Z. Ashley, H. Sutherland, H. Lanmueller, E. Unger, F. Li, W. Mayr, H. Kern, J. Jarvis, S.

Salmons (Liverpool, United Kingdom)

DETERMINATION OF THE CHRONAXIE AND RHEOBASE OF DENERVATED

LIMB MUSCLES IN CONSCIOUS RABBITS

W. Girsch, C. Hofer, D. Rafolt, W. Rossmanith, G. Weigel, E. Unger, W. Mayr

(Vienna, Austria)

FES OF DENERVATED TIBIALIS ANTERIOR IN THE PIG MODEL

D. Dow, R. Dennis, J. Faulkner (Ann Arbor, USA) 63

DISTRIBUTION OF REST PERIODS BETWEEN ELECTRICALLY GENERATED

CONTRACTIONS IN DENERVATED MUSCLES OF RATS

A. Jakubiec-Puka, K. Krawczyk, H. Chomontowska, D. Biral, U. Carraro

(Warszawa, Poland)

MORPHOLOGY OF THE 2-MONTH-DENERVATED RAT LEG MUSCLES

D. Danieli, E. Germinario, D. Biral, M. Fabbian, M. Zanin, A. Megighian, H. Kern,

U. Carraro, V. Vindigni, C. Hofer, M. Moedlin, W. Mayr (Padova, Italy)

THE LONG-TERM DENERVATED RAT MYOFIBER: A NEW CONTRACTILE

CELL TYPE

U. Carraro, K. Rossini, M. Zanin, M. Fabbian, W. Mayr, C. Hofer, H. Kern

(Padova, Italy)

A NEW FAST AND RELIABLE SDS PAGE TO QUANTIFY TOTAL PROTEIN AND

MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN IN CRYO-SECTIONS OF NEEDLE BIOPSY SHOWS THAT

LONG-TERM PERMANENT DENERVATED HUMAN MUSCLES RECOVER BY FES

TRAINING

SESSION 6 LOWER EXTREMITIES: BASICS

A. Wernig, R. Schäfer, U. Knauf, M. Zweyer, O. Högemeier, R. Mundegar, G. Wernig,

M. Wernig (Bonn, Deutschland)

LITTLE EVIDENCE FOR CONTINUAL MUSCLE FIBER REPAIR BY PRESUMED

CIRCULATING STEM CELLS.

A. Wernig, U. Knauf, R. Schäfer, M. Zweyer, R. Mundegar, T. Partridge

(Bonn, Deutschland)

FOLLOW UP OF HUMAN MYOGENIC CELLS FROM DONORS AGED 2- 82 YEARS

A. Thrasher, G. Graham, M.R. Popovic (Toronto, Canada)

ATTEMPTS TO REDUCE MUSCLE FATIGUE BY RANDOMIZING FES

PARAMETERS

E. Spaich, L. Arendt-Nielsen, O. Andersen (Aalborg, Denmark)

REPETITIVE PAINFUL STIMULATION PRODUCES AN EXPANSION OF

WITHDRAWAL REFLEX RECEPTIVE FIELDS IN HUMANS

E. Cacho, A. Cliquet Jr. (São Paulo, Brazil)

THE EFFECT OF GAIT TRAINING WITH NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTRICAL

STIMULATION ON THE ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC ACTIVITY IN PARAPLEGIC

PATIENTS

H. Cerrel Bazo (Arcugnano, Italy)

NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION, PLASTICITY AND ACTIVITY MEDIATED

ASPECTS: A ROLE FOR LOCOMOTOR GENERATING ACTIVITY AND THE

RESIDUAL POTENTIAL ON SCI INDIVIDUALS THROUGH FES WALKING?

SESSION 7 LOWER EXTREMITIES: GAIT

M. Bijak, M. Rakos, C. Hofer, W. Mayr, M. Strohhofer, D. Raschka, H. Kern

(Vienna, Austria)

STIMULATION PARAMETER OPTIMISATION FOR FES SUPPORTED STANDING

UP AND WALKING IN SCI PATIENTS

J. Van Vaerenbergh, S. de Ruijter, A. De Kegel, S. Vandenberghe, Y. D'Hont, L. Briers

(Gent, Belgium)

QUALITY AND SAFETY OF GAIT IN STROKE PATIENTS USING A DROPPED

FOOT STIMULATOR

A. Olenšek, Z. Matjačić, T. Bajd (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

STUDYING GAIT PATTERN WHEN EMULATING MUSCLE CONTRACTURE

J. Szecsi, S. Krafczyk, A. Straube, J. Quintern (München, Germany)

FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION: PROPELLED CYCLING OF

PARAPLEGICS - AN OCCUPATIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL APPROACH

Z. Matjačić, S. Rusjan, I. Stanonik, N. Goljar, A. Olenšek (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

METHODS FOR DYNAMIC BALANCE TRAINING DURING STANDING AND

STEPPING

H. El Makssoud, S. Mohammed, P. Fraisse, P. Poignet, D. Guiraud (Montpellier, France)

CONTROL OF THE KNEE JOINT UNDER FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL

STIMULATION - SIMULATION RESULTS BASED ON A NEW PHYSIOLOGICAL

MUSCLE MODEL

C. Schmitt, P. Métrailler, J. Fournier, M. Bouri, R. Clavel, R. Brodard, A. Al-Khodairy

(Lausanne, Switzerland)

THE MOTIONMAKER™ : A REHABILITATION SYSTEM COMBINING AN

ORTHOSIS WITH CLOSED-LOOP ELECTRICAL MUSCLE STIMULATION

SESSION 8 SENSORS AND CONTROL

D. Rafolt, W. Mayr, E. Gallasch, K. Vetter, S. Sauermann, H. Lanmueller, E. Unger,

M. Bijak, M. Reichel, C. Hofer (Vienna, Austria)

SATURATION OF THE M-WAVE AMPLITUDE WITH INCREASING

STIMULATION AMPLITUDE

G. Kurstjens, N. Rijkhoff, A. Borau, A. Rodríguez, J. Vidal, T. Sinkjær

(Aalborg, Denmark)

INTRAOPERATIVE RECORDING OF SACRAL ROOT NERVE SIGNALS IN

HUMAN

I. Cikajlo, Z. Matjacic, T. Bajd, R. Futami, N. Hoshimiya (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

SENSORY SUPPORTED FES CONTROL IN GAIT TRAINING OF INCOMPLETE SCI

PERSONS

S. Sauermann, E. Unger, P. Protz, M. Bijak, D. Rafolt (Vienna, Austria)

MICROPROCESSOR BASED INCLINOMETER SENSOR FOR USE IN FES

S. Mina, S. Hanke (Wr. Neustadt, Austria)

MULTIMODAL, RF BASED BODY AREA NETWORK FOR DEVICE CONTROL

T. Watanabe, M. Otsuka, M. Yoshizawa, N. Hoshimiya (Sendai, JAPAN)

COMPUTER SIMULATION FOR MULTICHANNEL CLOSED-LOOP FES CONTROL

OF THE WRIST JOINT

M.B. Popovic, D.B. Popovic (Aalborg, Denmark)

HIERARCHICAL HYBRID CONTROL FOR THERAPEUTIC ELECTRICAL

STIMULATION OF UPPER EXTREMITIES

A. Vette, K. Masani, M.R. Popovic (Toronto, Canada)

PHYSICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF A PD CONTROLLER FOR IMPROVING

HUMAN BALANCE DURING QUIET STANCE

SESSION 9 THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS

J. Huber, P. Lisiński, A. Kasiński, M. Kaczmarek, P. Kaczmarek, P. Mazurkiewicz,

F. Ponulak, M. Wojtysiak (Pozna􀄔, Poland)

THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS OF SPINAL CORD AND PERIPHERAL NERVE

STIMULATION IN PATIENTS WITH THE MOVEMENT DISORDERS

D. Rosselli, M. Magliano, M. Vrola (Giaveno, Italy)

THE EFFECTS OF THE ELECTRIC STIMULATION WITH MIDDLE FREQUENCY

ON CENTRAL AND PERIPHERAL PALSY

T. Keller, M. Ellis, J. Dewald (Zürich, Switzerland)

OVERCOMING ABNORMAL JOINT TORQUE PATTERNS IN PARETIC UPPER

EXTREMITIES USING TRICEPS STIMULATION

W. Gruther, C. Zöch, R. Crevenna, T. Paternostro-Sluga, C. Spiss, P. Kraincuk,

F. Kainberger, R. Peceny, M. Quittan (Vienna, Austria)

ASSESSMENT OF MUSCLE LAYER THICKNESS OF QUADRICEPS MUSCLE IN

INTENSIVE CARE UNIT PATIENTS DURING A PERIOD OF NMES TREATMENT

USING ULTRASONOGRAPHY - PRELIMINARY DATA

SESSION 10 TECHNOLOGY: IMPLANTS AND ELECTRODES

V. Simard, B. Gosselin, M. Sawan (Montreal, Canada)

AN ANALOG WAVELET PROCESSOR FOR A FULLY IMPLANTABLE

CORTICAL SIGNALS RECORDING SYSTEM

J. Sacristan, N. Lago, X. Navarro, M. Oses (Bellaterra, Spain)

PROGRAMMABLE STIMULATION-RECORDING CIRCUITRY FOR CUFF AND

SIEVE ELECTRODES

J. Coulombe, S. Carniguian, M. Sawan (Montreal, Canada)

A POWER EFFICIENT ELECTRONIC IMPLANT FOR A VISUAL CORTICAL

STIMULATOR

H. Lanmueller, E. Unger, M. Reichel, Z. Ashley, W. Mayr, A. Tschakert

(Vienna, Austria)

IMPLANTABLE STIMULATOR FOR THE CONDITIONING OF DENERVATED

MUSCLES IN RABBIT

P. Meadows, C. Varga, J. Oakley, E. Krames, K. Bradley (Santa Clarita, USA)

IMPEDANCE EFFECTS IN SPINAL CORD STIMULATION: CONTACT IMPEDANCE

VARIABILITY

M. Russold, H. Sutherland, H. Lanmueller, M. Bijak, J. Jarvis, S. Salmons

(Liverpool, United Kingdom)

EXCITABILITY OF THE COMMON PERONEAL NERVE IN RABBITS,

RATS AND MICE

A. Elsaify, J. Fothergill, W. Peasgood (Leicester, United Kingdom)

A PORTABLE FES SYSTEM INCORPORATING AN ELECTRODE ARRAY AND

FEEDBACK SENSORS

M. Lawrence, T. Kirstein, T. Keller (Zurich, Switzerland)

ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF THE FINGER FLEXORS USING ‘VIRTUAL

ELECTRODES’.

A. Popović-Bijelić, G. Bijelić, D. Bojanić, N. Jorgovanović, M.B. Popović, D.B. Popović

(Aalborg, Denmark)

MULTI-FIELD SURFACE ELECTRODE FOR SELECTIVE ELECTRICAL

STIMULATION

SESSION 11 FES FROM HEAD TO TOE

G. Novikov, T. Moshonkina (St.Petersburg, Russia)

THREE TYPES OF EYE MOVEMENT PATTERNS ELICITED BY ELECTRICAL

STIMULATION OF CATS SUPERIOR COLLICULUS AND OCCIPITAL CORTEX:

PATTERN OF EYE MOVEMENTS AND RECEPTIVE FIELD PROPERTIES

I. Ramn Arine, M. Capoccia, Z. Ashley, H. Sutherland, M. Russold, F. Li,

N. Summerfield, S. Salmons, J. Jarvis (Liverpool, United Kingdom)

COMPARISON BETWEEN THE POWER OUTPUT OF A SKELETAL MUSCLE

VENTRICLE AND OF THE LEFT VENTRICLE IN THE SAME CIRCULATION

H. Gollee, S. Coupaud, K. Hunt, D. Allan, M. Fraser, A. McLean

(Glasgow, United Kingdom)

A FEEDBACK SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES TO ASSIST RESPIRATORY FUNCTION IN

TETRAPLEGIA

J. Rozman, M. Mihic, M. Bunc, T. Princi (Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia)

MODULATION OF PH IN THE STOMMACH OF A DOG BY SELECTIVE

STIMULATION OF THE LEFT VAGUS NERVE

M. Spinelli, S. Malaguti, M. Lazzeri, G. Giardiello, L. Zanollo, J. Tarantola

(Magenta (MI), Italy)

DIFFERENT PARAMETERS FOR CHRONIC PUDENDAL NERVE STIMULATION

WITH PUDENDAL PERCUTANEOUS IMPLANT (PPI) RELATED ON NEUROGENIC

SITUATION

J. Kutzenberger, B. Domurath, D. Sauerwein (Bad Wildungen, Germany)

SPASTIC BLADDER IN SPINAL CORD INJURY - 17 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

WITH SACRAL DEAFFERENTATION (SDAF) AND IMPLANTATION OF AN

ANTERIOR ROOT STIMULATOR (SARS).

C. Sevcencu, N. Rijkhoff, H. Gregersen, T. Sinkjær (Aalborg, Denmark)

ELECTRICAL STIMULATION TO INDUCE PROPULSIVE CONTRACTIONS IN THE

DESCENDING COLON OF THE PIG

POSTERS

M. Emadi, F. Bahrami, M. Yazdanpanah (Tehran, Iran)

SIMULATION OF THE STS TRANSFER USING A MLP WITHOUT EMBEDDED

INTERNAL FEEDBACK

C. Chouard (Paris, France)

PRESENT STATUS OF HEARING ELECTRICAL ACTIVATION

R. Herman, W. Willis (Phoenix, US)

MUSCLE FUEL SELECTION IN GOVERNING PREFERRED RATES OF

MOVEMENT: A MOTOR CONTROL ISSUE

J. Martinek, M. Reichel, W. Mayr, F. Rattay (Vienna, Austria)

ANALYSIS OF CALCULATED ELECTRICAL ACTIVATION OF DENERVATED

MUSCLE FIBRES IN THE HUMAN THIGH

H. Eike, R. Koch, F. Feldhusen, H. Seifert (Hannover, Germany)

CALCULATION OF CURRENT DENSITY DISTRIBUTION IN BIOLOGICAL

MATTER WITH THE FINITE ELEMENT METHODE

T. Moshonkina, G. Novikov, E. Gilerovich, E. Fedorova, Y. Gerasimenko

(St.Petersburg, Russia)

STEPPING RESTORATION IN CHRONICALLY SPINALIZED RATS BY

TREADMILL TRAINING

I. Persy, S. Harkema, J. Beres-Jones, M. Moedlin, H. Kern, K. Minassian, M. Dimitrijevic

(Vienna, Austria)

IMMEDIATE EFFECT OF MANUALLY ASSISTED TREADMILL STEPPING ON

THE MOTOR UNITS ACTIVITY OF LEG MUSCLES IN COMPLETE SPINAL CORD

INJURED PATIENTS

G. Cosendai, C. de Balthasar, A. Ignagni, R. Onders, K. Bradley, K. Purnell, A. Ripley, J.

Mortimer, R. Davis, Y. Zilberman, J. Schulman (Santa Clarita, U.S.A.)

PRELIMINARY RESULTS WITH TWO IMPLANTABLE DIAPHRAGM PACING

SYSTEMS

T. Helgason, P. Gargiulo, F. Johannesdottir, P. Ingvarsson, S. Knutsdottir,

V. Gudmundsdottir, S. Yngvason (Reykjavik, Iceland)

APPLICATION OF STEREOLITHGRAPHIE IN MONITORING MUSCLE GROWTH

INDUCED BY ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF DENERVATED DEGENERATED

MUSCLES