Gait improvements by assisting hip movements with the robot in children with cerebral palsy: a pilot randomized controlled trial.

Journal: Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
Published Date: Jul 3, 2020

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Recently, rehabilitation robots are expected to improve the gait of cerebral palsy (CP) children. However, only few previous studies have reported the kinematic and kinetic changes by using wearable exoskeleton robots. The aim of this study was to investigate the change in gait parameters in CP children by training with the wearable robot-assisted gait training.

Authors

  • Shihomi Kawasaki
    Department of Physical Therapy, Human Health Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan. kawasaki.shihomi.55n@kyoto-u.jp.
  • Koji Ohata
    Department of Physical Therapy, Human Health Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Takeshi Yoshida
    The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0047, Japan.
  • Atsushi Yokoyama
    Department of Pediatrics, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Shigehito Yamada
    Department of Physical Therapy, Human Health Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.

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