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Comparison of robotic and clinical motor function improvement measures for sub-acute stroke patients

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Comparison of robotic and clinical motor function improvement measures for sub-acute stroke patients
Abstract— In this paper, preliminary results in motor function improvement for four sub-acute stroke patients that underwent a hybrid robotic and traditional rehabilitation program are presented. The therapy program was scheduled for three days a week, four hours per day (approximately 60% traditional constraint induced therapy activities and 40% robotic therapy). A haptic joystick was used to implement four different operating modes for robotic therapy: unassisted (U), constrained (C), assisted (A), and resisted (R) modes. A target hitting task involving the positioning of a pointer on twelve targets was completed by the patients. Two different robotic measures were utilized to quantify the motor function improvement through the sessions: trajectory error (TE) and smoothness of movement (SM). Fugl-Meyer (FM) and Motor Activity Log (MAL) scales were used as clinical measures. Analysis of results showed that the group demonstrates a significant motor function improvement with respect...
Ozkan Celik, Marcia Kilchenman O'Malley, Corwin Bo
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Type Conference
Year 2008
Where ICRA
Authors Ozkan Celik, Marcia Kilchenman O'Malley, Corwin Boake, Harvey Levin, Steven Fischer, Timothy Reistetter
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