The features of Gait Exercise Assist Robot: Precise assist control and enriched feedback
| Autor: | Shinya Sasaki, Hitoshi Kagaya, Hitoshi Konosu, Daisuke Kato, Shigeo Tanabe, Norihide Itoh, Hiroki Tanikawa, Eiichi Saitoh, Satoshi Hirano |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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030506 rehabilitation medicine.medical_specialty Knee Joint Control (management) Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Functional Independence Measure score Left thalamus 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Gait (human) Physical medicine and rehabilitation Gait training Feedback Sensory Medicine Humans Stroke Gait Simulation Aged business.industry Rehabilitation Motion Therapy Continuous Passive Stroke Rehabilitation Right hemiplegia Robotics medicine.disease Exoskeleton Device Robot Neurology (clinical) 0305 other medical science business human activities 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | NeuroRehabilitation. 41(1) |
| ISSN: | 1878-6448 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND In a patient with severe hemiplegia, the risk of the knee giving way is high during the early stage of gait exercise with an ankle-foot orthosis. However, use of a knee-ankle-foot orthosis has many problems such as large amount of assistance and compensatory motions. To resolve these problems, we have engaged in the development of the Gait Exercise Assist Robot (GEAR). OBJECTIVE To evaluate the improvement efficiency of walk with GEAR in a stroke patient. METHODS The subject was a 70-year-old man presented with left thalamus hemorrhage and right hemiplegia. The patient underwent exercise with the GEAR 5 days a week, for 40 minutes per day. We evaluated the Functional Independence Measure score for walk (FIM-walk score) every week. The control group consisted of 15 patients aged 20-75 years with hemiplegia after primary stroke, who had equivalent walking ability with the subject at start. As the primary outcome, we defined improvement efficiency of FIM-walk, which was gain of FIM-walk divided the number of required weeks. RESULTS Improvement efficiency of FIM-walk of the subject was 1.5, while that of control group was 0.48±3.2 (mean±SD). CONCLUSIONS GEAR is potentially useful for gait exercise in hemiplegic patients. |
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