Patent ID: 7563234

Claim:
A method of rehabilitating a patient experiencing skeletal joint motor control loss resulting from neurological disorders, the rehabilitation entailing retraining the patient's brain to produce coordinated, individuated muscle activity, comprising: practicing assisted movement with enhanced sensation (AMES), in which a joint-ranging device rotates a joint of the patient with concomitant vibration of lengthening muscles associated with the joint while the patient attempts to assist the rotation of the joint with voluntary contraction of corresponding shortening muscles associated with the joint; and providing to the patient feedback information indicative of electromyographic (EMG) activity of the lengthening and shortening muscles, the feedback information including information indicating which ones of the lengthening and shortening muscles are appropriate for the patient to activate as the patient assists joint rotation imparted by the joint-ranging device to correct muscle dyscoordination and thereby produce coordinated, individuated muscle activity.