Effects of Gait Rehabilitation Robot Combined with Electrical Stimulation on Spinal Cord Injury Patients' Blood Pressure.

Journal: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
PMID: 39943623

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Orthostatic hypotension can occur during acute spinal cord injury (SCI) and subsequently persist. We investigated whether a gait rehabilitation robot combined with functional electrical stimulation (FES) stabilizes hemodynamics during orthostatic stress in SCI.

Authors

  • Takahiro Sato
    Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
  • Ryota Kimura
    Office of Pharmacovigilance I, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Yuji Kasukawa
    Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, Akita University Hospital, 44-2, Hiroomote Hasunuma, Akita 010-8543, Japan.
  • Daisuke Kudo
    Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, Akita University Hospital, 44-2, Hiroomote Hasunuma, Akita 010-8543, Japan.
  • Kazutoshi Hatakeyama
    Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, Akita University Hospital, 44-2, Hiroomote Hasunuma, Akita 010-8543, Japan.
  • Motoyuki Watanabe
    Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, Akita University Hospital, 44-2, Hiroomote Hasunuma, Akita 010-8543, Japan.
  • Yusuke Takahashi
  • Kazuki Okura
    Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, Akita University Hospital, 44-2, Hiroomote Hasunuma, Akita 010-8543, Japan.
  • Tomohiro Suda
    Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, Akita University Hospital, 44-2, Hiroomote Hasunuma, Akita 010-8543, Japan.
  • Daido Miyamoto
    Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, Akita University Hospital, 44-2, Hiroomote Hasunuma, Akita 010-8543, Japan.
  • Takehiro Iwami
    Department of Systems Design Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Science, Akita University Graduate School of Engineering Science, 1-1 Tegata Gakuen-cho, Akita 010-8502, Japan.
  • Naohisa Miyakoshi
    Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Hondo, Akita 010-8543, Japan.

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