Table 1.

Related study reviews from the last 5 years

Group	Intervention aim		Target population		Affected function			Assessment
	Assistive	Therapeutic	SCI only	Multiple	Hand only	UL	Multiple	P	S
Soft robotics
Tran et al. 2021 [31]	$✓$	$✓$		$✓$	$✓$			$✓$
Proulx et al. 2020 [28]	$✓$	$✓$		$✓$	$✓$			$✓$
Dávila-Vilchis et al. 2020 [27]	$✓$	$✓$		$✓$	$✓$				$✓$
Sarac et al. 2019 [32]	$✓$	$✓$		$✓$	$✓$				$✓$
Chu et al. 2018 [25]	$✓$	$✓$		$✓$	$✓$				$✓$
Gassert et al. 2018 [33]		$✓$		$✓$			$✓$	$✓$
Shahid et al. 2018 [29]	$✓$	$✓$		$✓$	$✓$				$✓$
FES
Marquez-Chin et al. 2020 [34]	$✓$	$✓$		$✓$			$✓$	$✓$
Kapadia et al. 2020 [17]		$✓$		$✓$		$✓$		$✓$
Luo et al. 2020 [35]	$✓$		$✓$				$✓$	$✓$
Milosevic et al. 2020 [14]	$✓$	$✓$		$✓$		$✓$		$✓$
Degnan et al. 2017 [36]	$✓$		$✓$			$✓$		$✓$
FES + Soft Robotics
Dunkelberger et al. 2020 [30]	$✓$	$✓$	$✓$			$✓$			$✓$
Our study	$✓$	$✓$	$✓$		$✓$			$✓$

UL upper limbs, P user-centric, S system-centric