Effects of control strategies on gait in robot-assisted post-stroke lower limb rehabilitation: a systematic review.

Journal: Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Stroke related motor function deficits affect patients' likelihood of returning to professional activities, limit their participation in society and functionality in daily living. Hence, robot-aided gait rehabilitation needs to be fruitful and effective from a motor learning perspective. For this reason, optimal human-robot interaction strategies are necessary to foster neuroplastic shaping during therapy. Therefore, we performed a systematic search on the effects of different control algorithms on quantitative objective gait parameters of post-acute stroke patients.

Authors

  • Silvia Campagnini
    IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi onlus, Via di Scandicci 269, Firenze, 50143, Italy.
  • Piergiuseppe Liuzzi
    Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, The BioRobotics Institute, Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 34, 56025, Pontedera, PI, Italy.
  • Andrea Mannini
    IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi onlus, Via di Scandicci 269, Firenze, 50143, Italy. amannini@dongnocchi.it.
  • Robert Riener
    Sensory-Motor Systems Lab, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Maria Chiara Carrozza