Training stroke patients with continuous tracking movements: evaluating the improvement of voluntary control

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2009:2009:5961-4. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334525.

Abstract

We report on a pilot study of robot therapy with stroke patients. Patients were requested to track a continuously moving target according to a figure-of-eight. Assistance was provided by an attractive force field, whose magnitude was regulated according to a principle of minimal assistance and a principle of consolidation of the learned memory trace. From the analysis of the assistive forces, we show that subjects improve their degree of voluntary control.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Movement Disorders / diagnosis
  • Movement Disorders / etiology
  • Movement Disorders / rehabilitation*
  • Psychomotor Performance
  • Robotics / methods*
  • Stroke / complications
  • Stroke / diagnosis
  • Stroke Rehabilitation*
  • Task Performance and Analysis*
  • Therapy, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Volition