Novel end-effector device for patient-in-charge model-based progressive gait rehabilitation
| Main Authors: | Maddalena, Marco, Saadat, Mozafar |
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| Format: | Proceeding poster Journal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2021
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/4972585 |
Daftar Isi:
- Stroke survivors exhibit a variable motor deficit whose recovery can be pursued through physical exercises eliciting brain plasticity [1]. In particular, researchers agree that improvement is a result of patient's attempt at exerting correct neural control of muscle effort. Therefore, robot intervention should allow volitional activity and give a performance-based feedback in order to foster user's engagement, while enabling the user to complete the task by providing assistance as needed. Our aim was to implement a footplates-based gait rehabilitation device which: • Interacts with the user who is empowered to direct the motion. • Allows to reduce task level and assigns a progressive exercise, based on an impairment model which incorporates recently developed theory of gait modularity.