Making Best Use of Home-Based Rehabilitation Robots
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Abstract
Large-scale clinical trials have shown that rehabilitation robots are as affective as conventional therapy, but the cost-effectiveness is preventing their uptake. This study investigated whether a low-cost rehabilitation robot could be deployed in a home setting for rehabilitation of people recovering from stroke (n = 16) and whether clinical outcome measures correlated well with kinematic measures gathered by the robot. The results support the feasibility of patients independently using the robot with improvement in both clinical measures and kinematic data. We recommend using kinematic data early in an intervention to detect improvement while using a robotic device. The kinematic measures in the assessment task (hits/minute and normalised jerk) adequately pick up changes within a four-week period, thus allowing the rehabilitation regime to be adapted to suit the user’s needs. Estimating the long-term clinical benefit must be explored in future research.
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OpenAlex topics: Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery · Acute Ischemic Stroke Management · Spinal Cord Injury Research
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School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Academic Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, D Floor, Martin Wing, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds LS1 3EX, UK
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