Robot-aided Neurorehabilitation

Overview

Journal IEEE Trans Rehabil Eng

Specialties Biomedical Engineering
Rehabilitation Medicine

Date 1998 Apr 16

PMID 9535526

Citations 176

Authors

H I Krebs

N Hogan

M L Aisen

B T Volpe

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Abstract

Our goal is to apply robotics and automation technology to assist, enhance, quantify, and document neurorehabilitation. This paper reviews a clinical trial involving 20 stroke patients with a prototype robot-aided rehabilitation facility developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, (MIT) and tested at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, White Plains, NY. It also presents our approach to analyze kinematic data collected in the robot-aided assessment procedure. In particular, we present evidence 1) that robot-aided therapy does not have adverse effects, 2) that patients tolerate the procedure, and 3) that peripheral manipulation of the impaired limb may influence brain recovery. These results are based on standard clinical assessment procedures. We also present one approach using kinematic data in a robot-aided assessment procedure.

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