Robot-assisted training of the kinesthetic sense: enhancing proprioception after stroke.

ABSTRACT: Proprioception has a crucial role in promoting or hindering motor learning. In particular, an intact position sense strongly correlates with the chances of recovery after stroke. A great majority of neurological patients present both motor dysfunctions and impairments in kinesthesia, but traditional robot and virtual reality training techniques focus either in recovering motor functions or in assessing proprioceptive deficits. An open challenge is to implement effective and reliable tests and training protocols for proprioception that go beyond the mere position sense evaluation and exploit the intrinsic bidirectionality of the kinesthetic sense, which refers to both sense of position and sense of movement. Modulated haptic interaction has a leading role in promoting sensorimotor integrati

SUBMITTER: De Santis D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4283673 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature