Exoskeletal Support in Stroke

Inclusion Criteria

• •Healthy controls:
• •Having obtained the age of 18 years
• •Neurologically healthy (i.e., no history of: traumatic brain injury, peripheral neuropathy, seizures, etc.)
• •Strongly right-handed according to at least 80% score on the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory (Oldfield, 1971; Veale, 2013). The use of right-handed participants is a common feature in this field of study. This is due to the slight differences in arm control between left- and right-handed individuals (Sainburg \& Kalakanis, 2000).
• •Ability to give informed consent
• •Survivors of stroke:
• •Having obtained the age of 18 years
• •have a diagnosis of stroke more than six months prior to entry into the study;
• •have the ability to reach, unsupported, to approximately 70% of arm length
• •ability to give informed consent