A Clinically Relevant Method of Analyzing Continuous Change in Robotic Upper Extremity Chronic Stroke Rehabilitation.

Journal: Neurorehabilitation and neural repair
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Robots designed for rehabilitation of the upper extremity after stroke facilitate high rates of repetition during practice of movements and record precise kinematic data, providing a method to investigate motor recovery profiles over time.

Authors

  • Crystal L Massie
    University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA massiec@iu.edu.
  • Yue Du
    Laboratory of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, School of Pharmacy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road, Shenyang, 110016, PR China.
  • Susan S Conroy
    VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  • H Igo Krebs
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • George F Wittenberg
    University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  • Christopher T Bever
    University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  • Jill Whitall
    University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.