SYNTHESIS OF A PARALLEL MANIPULATOR BASED REHABILITATION CERVICAL COLLAR FOR C-SPINE INJURED PATIENTS, 27-34.

Arockia Selvakumar Arockia Doss,∗ Pavan Kalyan Lingampally,∗ and Latifah Nurahmi∗∗

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