TY - GEN
T1 - Motility evaluation of a novel overground functional mobility tool for post stroke rehabilitation
AU - Patton, J. L.
AU - Brown, D.
AU - Lewis, E.
AU - Crombie, G.
AU - Santos, J.
AU - Makhlin, A.
AU - Colgate, J. E.
AU - Peshkin, M.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The KineAssist is a robotic device that allows the therapist to safely interact with and challenge a patient as they train in whole body dynamic-balance tasks such as sit to stand or gait. The design and development of the KineAssist proceeded rapidly as a startup product of a small company. Here we briefly restate the KineAssist's motivation, design, and use, and then present an initial evaluation of the alpha-prototype's performance on healthy and stroke survivors. The studies showed that sacral marker trajectories were slower but otherwise not significantly changed in amplitude when using the device The KineAssist therefore yields a safe environment for training functional mobility tasks, and these results identify a promising method of safely challenging patients to exert more effort while maintaining natural kinematic ranges of motion.
AB - The KineAssist is a robotic device that allows the therapist to safely interact with and challenge a patient as they train in whole body dynamic-balance tasks such as sit to stand or gait. The design and development of the KineAssist proceeded rapidly as a startup product of a small company. Here we briefly restate the KineAssist's motivation, design, and use, and then present an initial evaluation of the alpha-prototype's performance on healthy and stroke survivors. The studies showed that sacral marker trajectories were slower but otherwise not significantly changed in amplitude when using the device The KineAssist therefore yields a safe environment for training functional mobility tasks, and these results identify a promising method of safely challenging patients to exert more effort while maintaining natural kinematic ranges of motion.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICORR.2007.4428553
DO - 10.1109/ICORR.2007.4428553
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:48349141300
SN - 1424413206
SN - 9781424413201
T3 - 2007 IEEE 10th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR'07
SP - 1049
EP - 1054
BT - 2007 IEEE 10th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR'07
T2 - 2007 IEEE 10th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR'07
Y2 - 12 June 2007 through 15 June 2007
ER -