Improving the ROM of wrist movements in stroke patients by means of a haptic wrist robot

Author

Squeri, Valentina ; Masia, Lorenzo ; Taverna, Laura ; Morasso, Pietro

Author_Institution

Italian Institute of Technology, Dept. of Robotics, Brain, and Cognitive Sciences, Via Morego, 30, 16163 Genoa, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011

Firstpage

1268

Lastpage

1271

Abstract

A 3 DoFs haptic wrist robot is used to measure and/or assist the movement of the wrist on three axes: flexion/extension (F/E), abduction/adduction (A/A), pronation/ supination (P/S). An assistance scheme based on the widely used progressive splinting therapy is proposed and its efficacy is tested within a group of nine chronic stroke patients, during a pilot study consisting of 2 sessions. Preliminary outcomes show that the technique is effective with the very distal part of wrist involving F/E and A/A but results in a reduced motor improvement for the P/S where proximal part of the arm is involved.

Keywords

Medical treatment; Protocols; Read only memory; Robot kinematics; Training; Wrist; Adult; Aged; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Female; Humans; Middle Aged; Motion Therapy, Continuous Passive; Paresis; Range of Motion, Articular; Reproducibility of Results; Robotics; Sensitivity and Specificity; Stroke; Therapy, Computer-Assisted; Touch; Treatment Outcome; Wrist Joint;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4121-1

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090298

Filename

6090298