Motor improvement estimation and task adaptation for personalized robot-aided therapy: a feasibility study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the past years, robotic systems have become increasingly popular in upper limb rehabilitation. Nevertheless, clinical studies have so far not been able to confirm superior efficacy of robotic therapy over conventional methods. The personalization of robot-aided therapy according to the patients' individual motor deficits has been suggested as a pivotal step to improve the clinical outcome of such approaches.

Methods

Here, we present a model-based approach to personalize robot-aided rehabilitation therapy within training sessions. The proposed method combines the information from different motor performance measures recorded from the robot to continuously estimate patients' motor improvement for a series of point-to-point reaching movements in different directio

SUBMITTER: Giang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7227346 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature