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Effects of a wearable exoskeleton stride management assist system (SMA®) on spatiotemporal gait characteristics in individuals after stroke: a randomized controlled trial.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation Aug 20, 2015
BACKGROUND: Robots offer an alternative, potentially advantageous method of providing repetitive, high-dosage, and high-intensity training to address the gait impairments caused by stroke. In this study, we compared the effects of the Stride Manageme...
Stroke Rehabilitation Gait Disorders, Neurologic Middle Aged Adolescent Treatment Outcome Follow-Up Studies Robotics Stroke Walking Gait Torque Paresis Physical Education and Training Aged Aged, 80 and over Humans Young Adult Female Adult Biomechanical Phenomena Male
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Individual prediction of chronic motor outcome in the acute post-stroke stage: Behavioral parameters versus functional imaging.

Human brain mapping Aug 19, 2015
Several neurobiological factors have been found to correlate with functional recovery after brain lesions. However, predicting the individual potential of recovery remains difficult. Here we used multivariate support vector machine (SVM) classificati...
Humans Prognosis Female Magnetic Resonance Imaging Recovery of Function Predictive Value of Tests Stroke Cerebellum Outcome Assessment, Health Care Aged Aged, 80 and over Adult Male Middle Aged Support Vector Machine Individuality Motor Cortex Movement Disorders
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Clinical usefulness and validity of robotic measures of reaching movement in hemiparetic stroke patients.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation Aug 12, 2015
BACKGROUND: Various robotic technologies have been developed recently for objective and quantitative assessment of movement. Among them, robotic measures derived from a reaching task in the KINARM Exoskeleton device are characterized by their potenti...
Aged Young Adult Adult Male Middle Aged Adolescent Humans Female Reproducibility of Results Treatment Outcome Psychomotor Performance Muscle, Skeletal Robotics Elbow Motor Skills Stroke Paresis Arm Upper Extremity Stroke Rehabilitation Ataxia
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Robotic therapy for chronic stroke: general recovery of impairment or improved task-specific skill?

Journal of neurophysiology Jul 15, 2015
There is a great need to develop new approaches for rehabilitation of the upper limb after stroke. Robotic therapy is a promising form of neurorehabilitation that can be delivered in higher doses than conventional therapy. Here we sought to determine...
Brain Ischemia Motor Skills Stroke Rehabilitation Recovery of Function Robotics Stroke Exercise Therapy Arm Humans Female Aged Biomechanical Phenomena Male Middle Aged
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The H2 robotic exoskeleton for gait rehabilitation after stroke: early findings from a clinical study.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation Jun 17, 2015
BACKGROUND: Stroke significantly affects thousands of individuals annually, leading to considerable physical impairment and functional disability. Gait is one of the most important activities of daily living affected in stroke survivors. Recent techn...
Gait Disorders, Neurologic Middle Aged Pilot Projects Treatment Outcome Lower Extremity Robotics Stroke Humans Prosthesis Design Algorithms Paresis Patient Safety Exoskeleton Device Adult Physical Therapy Modalities Biomechanical Phenomena Survivors Male Stroke Rehabilitation
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Using swing resistance and assistance to improve gait symmetry in individuals post-stroke.

Human movement science Jun 10, 2015
A major characteristic of hemiplegic gait observed in individuals post-stroke is spatial and temporal asymmetry, which may increase energy expenditure and the risk of falls. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of swing resistance/ass...
Stroke Rehabilitation Weight-Bearing Gait Disorders, Neurologic Braces Efferent Pathways Biomechanical Phenomena Humans Male Female Middle Aged Aged Robotics Adult Stroke Gait
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Gait training in subacute non-ambulatory stroke patients using a full weight-bearing gait-assistance robot: A prospective, randomized, open, blinded-endpoint trial.

Journal of the neurological sciences May 1, 2015
BACKGROUND: This study was a prospective, randomized, open, blinded-endpoint trial with the aim of examining whether gait training with a gait-assistance robot (GAR) improves gait disturbances in subacute non-ambulatory hemiplegic stroke patients mor...
Activities of Daily Living Middle Aged Humans Stroke Rehabilitation Outcome Assessment, Health Care Muscle, Skeletal Weight-Bearing Robotics Prospective Studies Locomotion Gait Disorders, Neurologic Double-Blind Method Female Functional Laterality Stroke Aged Statistics, Nonparametric Exercise Therapy Male
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Monitoring Neuro-Motor Recovery From Stroke With High-Resolution EEG, Robotics and Virtual Reality: A Proof of Concept.

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Apr 22, 2015
A novel system for the neuro-motor rehabilitation of upper limbs was validated in three sub-acute post-stroke patients. The system permits synchronized cortical and kinematic measures by integrating high-resolution EEG, passive robotic device and Vir...
User-Computer Interface Treatment Outcome Magnetic Resonance Imaging Monitoring, Physiologic Humans Recovery of Function Stroke Rehabilitation Brain Robotics Electroencephalography Female Movement Disorders Precision Medicine Stroke Aged Activities of Daily Living Biomechanical Phenomena Psychomotor Performance Male Cerebral Cortex Middle Aged Functional Laterality
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Upper-limb kinematic reconstruction during stroke robot-aided therapy.

Medical & biological engineering & computing Apr 11, 2015
The paper proposes a novel method for an accurate and unobtrusive reconstruction of the upper-limb kinematics of stroke patients during robot-aided rehabilitation tasks with end-effector machines. The method is based on a robust analytic procedure fo...
Stroke Arm Shoulder Joint Stroke Rehabilitation Biomechanical Phenomena Male Middle Aged Robotics Elbow Joint Humans Algorithms Female Adult
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Effects of Innovative WALKBOT Robotic-Assisted Locomotor Training on Balance and Gait Recovery in Hemiparetic Stroke: A Prospective, Randomized, Experimenter Blinded Case Control Study With a Four-Week Follow-Up.

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Apr 2, 2015
The present clinical investigation was to ascertain whether the effects of WALKBOT-assisted locomotor training (WLT) on balance, gait, and motor recovery were superior or similar to the conventional locomotor training (CLT) in patients with hemiparet...
Female Aged Male Middle Aged Case-Control Studies Treatment Outcome Follow-Up Studies Robotics Postural Balance Stroke Locomotion Humans Paresis Prospective Studies Physical Therapy Modalities Physical Education and Training Stroke Rehabilitation Gait Disorders, Neurologic
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