A Simple Robotic System for Neurorehabilitation

In the recent past, several researchers have shown that important variables in relearning motor skills and in changing the underlying neural architecture after stroke are the quantity, duration, content, and intensity of training sessions. Unfortunately, when traditional therapy is provided in a hospital or rehabilitation center, the patient is usually seen for few hours a week. Robot-mediated therapies could improve this situation but even if interesting results have been achieved by several groups, the use of robot-mediated therapy has not become very common in clinical practice. This is due to many different reasons (e.g., the "technophobia" of some clinicians, the need for more extensive clinical trials) but one of the more important is the cost and the complexity of these devices which make them difficult to be purchased and used in all the clinical centers. The aim of this work was to verify the possibility of improving motor recovery of hemiparetic subjects by using a ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2005
• Where: AROBOTS
• Authors: Silvestro Micera, Maria Chiara Carrozza, Eugenio Guglielmelli, Giovanni Cappiello, Franco Zaccone, C. Freschi, Roberto Colombo, Alessandra Mazzone, Carmen Delconte, Fabrizio Pisano, Giuseppe Minuco, Paolo Dario
• Keywords: AROBOTS 2005, Extensive Clinical Trials, Important Variables, Motor Recovery