Controlling patient participation during robot-assisted gait training

Cooperative Control Design for Robot-Assisted Balance During Gait

Avoiding falls is a challenge for many persons in aging societies, and balance dysfunction is a major risk factor. Robotic solutions to assist human gait, however, focus on average kinematics, and less on instantaneous balance reactions. We propose a controller that only intervenes when needed, and that avoids stability issues when interacting with humans: Assistance is triggered only when bala...

Virtual reality for enhancement of robot-assisted gait training in children with central gait disorders.

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of various forms of training interventions, with and without virtual reality, on the initiation and maintenance of active participation during robot-assisted gait training. DESIGN Intervention study at the Rehabilitation Centre Affoltern a. A., University Children's Hospital, Zurich. SUBJECTS Ten patients (5 males, mean age 12.47 years, standard deviation 1.8...

Gait Training using Pneumatically Actuated Robot System

Conflicting results of robot-assisted versus usual gait training during postacute rehabilitation of stroke patients: a randomized clinical trial

Robot gait training has the potential to increase the effectiveness of walking therapy. Clinical outcomes after robotic training are often not superior to conventional therapy. We evaluated the effectiveness of a robot training compared with a usual gait training physiotherapy during a standardized rehabilitation protocol in inpatient participants with poststroke hemiparesis. This was a randomi...

Robot-assisted gait training for stroke patients: current state of the art and perspectives of robotics

In this review, we give a brief outline of robot-mediated gait training for stroke patients, as an important emerging field in rehabilitation. Technological innovations are allowing rehabilitation to move toward more integrated processes, with improved efficiency and less long-term impairments. In particular, robot-mediated neurorehabilitation is a rapidly advancing field, which uses robotic sy...