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Kinematic Data Analysis for Post-Stroke Patients Following Bilateral Versus Unilateral Rehabilitation With an Upper Limb Wearable Robotic System
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@MISC{Kim_kinematicdata,
author = {Hyunchul Kim and Levi Makaio Miller and Irina Fedulow and Matt Simkins and Gary M. Abrams and Nancy Byl and Jacob Rosen},
title = {Kinematic Data Analysis for Post-Stroke Patients Following Bilateral Versus Unilateral Rehabilitation With an Upper Limb Wearable Robotic System},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Abstract—Robot-assisted stroke rehabilitation has become popular as one approach to helping patients recover function post-stroke. Robotic rehabilitation requires four important elements to match the robot to the patient: realistic biomechanical robotic elements, an assistive control scheme enabled through the human–robot interface, a task oriented rehabilitation program based on the principles of plasticity, and objective assessment tools to monitor change. This paper reports on a randomized clinical trial utilizing a complete robot-assisted rehabilitation system for the recovery of upper limb function in patients post-stroke. In this study, a seven degree-of-freedom (DOF) upper limb exoskeleton robot (UL-EXO7) is applied in a rehabilitation clinical trial for patients stable post-stroke (greater than six months). Patients had a Fugl-Meyer Score between 16–39, were mentally alert ( 19 on the VA Mini Mental Status Exam) and were between 27 and 70 years of age. Patients were randomly assigned to three groups: bilateral robotic training, unilateral robotic training, and usual care. This study is concerned with the changes in kinematics in the two robotic groups. Both patient groups played eight therapeutic video games over 12 sessions (90 min, two times a week). In each session, patients intensively played the different combination of video games that directly interacted with UL-EXO7 under the supervision of research assistant. At each session, all of the joint angle data was recorded for the evaluation of therapeutic effects. A new assessment metric is reported along with conventional metrics. The experimental result shows that both groups of patients showed consistent improvement with respect to the proposed and conventional metrics. Index Terms—Evaluation metric, exoskeleton, stroke rehabilitation, video game. I.
Keyphrases
upper limb wearable robotic system post-stroke patient bilateral versus unilateral rehabilitation kinematic data analysis video game conventional metric rehabilitation program consistent improvement therapeutic video game important element stroke rehabilitation therapeutic effect experimental result show upper limb function complete robot-assisted rehabilitation system rehabilitation clinical trial realistic biomechanical robotic element unilateral robotic training assistive control scheme research assistant human robot interface fugl-meyer score patient group bilateral robotic training index term evaluation function post-stroke randomized clinical trial limb exoskeleton robot joint angle data va mini mental status exam robotic rehabilitation usual care robotic group new assessment abstract robot-assisted stroke rehabilitation different combination objective assessment tool
