Preliminary development and technical evaluation of a belt-actuated robotic rehabilitation platform.

Journal: Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
Published Date: Jan 1, 2021

Abstract

BACKGROUND: To provide effective rehabilitation in the early post-injury stage, a novel robotic rehabilitation platform is proposed, which provides full-body arm-leg rehabilitation via belt actuation to severely disabled patients who are restricted to bed rest.

Authors

  • Juan Fang
    Institute for Rehabilitation and Performance Technology IRPT, Division of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Engineering and Information Technology, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Burgdorf, Switzerland.
  • Andres Schuwey
    Institute for Rehabilitation and Performance Technology IRPT, Division of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Engineering and Information Technology, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Burgdorf, Switzerland.
  • Niklaus Stocker
    Liberty MedTech Sagl, C/O OpenLab Group SA, Ticino, Switzerland.
  • Brian Pedrini
    Liberty MedTech Sagl, C/O OpenLab Group SA, Ticino, Switzerland.
  • Antonio Sampaio
    Liberty MedTech Sagl, C/O OpenLab Group SA, Ticino, Switzerland.
  • Kenneth J Hunt

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