Intensive seated robotic training of the ankle in patients with chronic stroke differentially improves gait.
Journal:
NeuroRehabilitation
Published Date:
Jan 1, 2017
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Robotic driven treatment plans targeting isolated joints of the upper limb have improved the sensorimotor condition of patients with stroke. Similar intensive efforts to allay lower limb gait impairment have not been so successful. In patients with stroke, targeted robot assisted training of the ankle joint, in a seated position, has demonstrated significant alterations in ankle stiffness and foot-ankle orientation at foot strike which may provide a new treatment option for gait impairment.