Robotic Trail Maker Platform for Rehabilitation in Neurological Conditions: Clinical Use Cases
Journal:
arXiv
Published Date:
Apr 27, 2025
Abstract
Patients with neurological conditions require rehabilitation to restore their
motor, visual, and cognitive abilities. To meet the shortage of therapists and
reduce their workload, a robotic rehabilitation platform involving the clinical
trail making test is proposed. Therapists can create custom trails for each
patient and the patient can trace the trails using a robotic device. The
platform can track the performance of the patient and use these data to provide
dynamic assistance through the robot to the patient interface. Therefore, the
proposed platform not only functions as an evaluation platform, but also trains
the patient in recovery. The developed platform has been validated at a
rehabilitation center, with therapists and patients operating the device. It
was found that patients performed poorly while using the platform compared to
healthy subjects and that the assistance provided also improved performance
amongst patients. Statistical analysis demonstrated that the speed of the
patients was significantly enhanced with the robotic assistance. Further,
neural networks are trained to classify between patients and healthy subjects
and to forecast their movements using the data collected.
