Gait training with a wearable powered robot during stroke rehabilitation: a randomized parallel-group trial.

Journal: Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: We have developed a wearable rehabilitation robot, "curara®," and examined its immediate effect in patients with spinocerebellar degeneration and stroke, but its rehabilitative effect has not been clarified. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of this device on gait training in stroke patients.

Authors

  • Daichi Miyagawa
    Department of Rehabilitation, JA Nagano Koseiren Kakeyu-Misayama Rehabilitation Center Kakeyu Hospital, Ueda, Japan.
  • Akira Matsushima
  • Yoichi Maruyama
  • Noriaki Mizukami
  • Mikio Tetsuya
  • Minoru Hashimoto
  • Kunihiro Yoshida