Tailoring Upper-Limb Robot-Aided Orthopedic Rehabilitation on Patients’ Psychophysiological State

Autor: Christian Tamantini, Francesca Cordella, Clemente Lauretti, Francesco Scotto di Luzio, Benedetta Campagnola, Laura Cricenti, Marco Bravi, Federica Bressi, Francesco Draicchio, Silvia Sterzi, Loredana Zollo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol 31, Pp 3297-3306 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1558-0210
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2023.3298381
Popis: Physical therapy keeps exploiting more and more the capabilities of the robot of adapting the treatments to patients’ needs. This paper aims at presenting a psychophysiological-aware control strategy for upper limb robot-aided orthopedic rehabilitation. The main features are the capability of i) generating point-to-point trajectories inside an adaptable workspace, ii) providing assistance in guiding the patients’ limbs in accomplishing the assigned task allowing them to freely move with a certain degree of spatial and temporal autonomy and iii) tuning the control parameters according to the patients’ kinematics performance and psychophysiological state. The implemented control strategy is validated in a real clinical setting on eight orthopedic patients undergoing twenty daily robot-aided rehabilitation sessions. The psychophysiological-aware control strategy evidenced a positive impact on the enrolled participants since they are effectively conducted in a calmer condition with respect to the patients who did not receive the psychophysiological adaptation. Moreover, clinical performance indicators suggest that the proposed tailored control strategy improves motor functions.
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