Soft robotic exosuit augmented high intensity gait training on stroke survivors: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stroke is a leading cause of serious gait impairments and restoring walking ability is a major goal of physical therapy interventions. Soft robotic exosuits are portable, lightweight, and unobtrusive assistive devices designed to improve the mobility of post-stroke individuals through facilitation of more natural paretic limb function during walking training. However, it is unknown whether long-term gait training using soft robotic exosuits will clinically impact gait function and quality of movement post-stroke.

Objective

The objective of this pilot study was to examine the therapeutic effects of soft robotic exosuit-augmented gait training on clinical and biomechanical gait outcomes in chronic post-stroke individuals.

Methods

Five post-stroke individuals

SUBMITTER: Shin SY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9164465 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature