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Attending RehabWeek?

Posted on Jan 7, 2019

Customers of BKIN Technologies can receive preferential registration rates for the upcoming RehabWeek conference in Toronto, June 2019.

In order to apply the membership discount, please proceed as follows:

  • Choose that you are a member of IISART during the registration process (https://www.rehabweek.org/registration/)
  • Enter the company-specific code IISART-BKIN-182584
  • When asked which conference you mainly plan to attend, choose INRS. This does not mean you cannot attend other conferences during the RehabWeek, but it helps to allocate resources.

Please feel free to share the code.

World Stroke Congress visitors: please reach out

Posted on Oct 23, 2018

To all of the wonderful people who we met at World Stroke Congress in Montreal,

Please reach out to us if you have not heard from us.  The lead retrieval application has mysteriously “lost” our last 1.5 days of scans.  We are working with them to hopefully recover the data, but for the moment, we are regrettably without your contact information.

We look forward to hearing from you,

Anne Vivian-Scott & Paul St. John

avivianscott@bkintechnologies.com

Event Calendar 2019

Posted on Sep 12, 2018

We love to demonstrate the benefits of KINARM Labs and would love to see you at an upcoming meeting.

Meeting Calendar Date Location Booth Number
World Congress on Brain Injury (IBIA) March 13-16, 2019 Toronto, Sheraton Centre #100
Neural Control of Movement April 23-25, 2019 Toyama, Japan  #1 Miyuki Giken
American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting May 4-10, 2019 Philadelphia, PA #208 in Technology Hub
RehabWeek
• the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society (IFESS)
• the International Consortium on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR)
• the International Industry Society in Advanced Rehabilitation Technology (IISART)
• the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM)
• the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA)
• International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO Canada)		 June 24-28, 2019 Toronto, Metro Toronto Convention Centre TBD
Neuroscience 2019 (SfN Annual Meeting) October 17-24, 2019 Chicago, IL #1873

 

Dexterit-E 3.7 is released!

Posted on Jul 24, 2018

July 2018

The Dexterit-E 3.7.0 release brings many improvements for usability, task development, and normative modeling. We are thrilled to be able to deliver such a long list of tangible improvements!

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RehabWeek 2017: Dr. Sean Dukelow speaks about his research with KINARM.

Posted on Jul 24, 2017

 

Dr Sean Dukelow, July 18, 2017 

Long-time KINARM Lab user, Dr. Sean Dukelow, spoke at the International Neurorehabilitation Symposium in London, UK last week.  INRS was one of four conferences that bound together for the biennial installment of RehabWeek.   In his session, he described his research related to identifying and quantifying neurological impairments from stroke, concussion, CP and other disorders.  He spoke of his long-term longitudinal study monitoring outcomes from over 100 subjects with stroke. Over the 6 month period he noted clear differences between early responders, late responders and non-responders. His results highlight the need for more sensitive, targeted identification of sensory and motor deficits to optimize rehabilitation after stroke. Further he has noted that the trajectory of recovery for some individuals with mild to moderate stroke may be much longer than previously considered. underlined the need for better characterization of impairments post stroke (Semrau, et al, 2015).

Semrau, J.A., Herter, T.M., Scott, S.H., Dukelow, S.P.  (2015) Examining Differences in Patterns of Sensory and Motor Recovery After Stroke With Robotics Stroke 2015 Dec; DOI:10.1161/STROKEAHA.115.010750

Dexterit-E 3.6.3 released

Posted on Jul 20, 2017

Dexterit-E 3.6.3
July, 2017

Dexterit-E 3.6.3 has several important updates for usability, stability and maintenance. This is considered a highly recommended update.
Of special note to KINARM Standard Task (KST) users are two changes:
• Ball on Bar task has been updated to allow the operator to command the task to move
the subject’s arms to the starting targets.
• Arm position matching, Ball on Bar, and Spatial Span tasks have all had force limits
imposed in order to avoid motor overheating issues. A review of our normal control data
shows that the force limits chosen should have negligible effect (for Ball on Bar, ~2% of
normal subjects would have been affected for ~2% of the task duration; for Arm
Position Matching, ~4% of normal subjects would have been affected, typically for a
single trial; for Spatial Span 0% of normal subjects would have been affected)

Please see our release notes for a complete list of changes and fixes. Before upgrading, please be sure to read the section on “Considerations for upgrading from Dexterit-E 3.5 to 3.6“.

If you are currently on Dex 3.5 or lower, in order to run Dexterit-E 3.6.3 you will need to contact support@bkintecknologies.com to obtain a new license key.