Anything to get away from subjective assessments. Without objective assessments any stroke research is not repeatable and thus worthless.
But then you don't want your insurance to start requiring objective proof that functional improvements are occurring. I'm sure our therapists can word our stuff properly to make sure we continue getting therapy.
http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=23080041
ABSTRACT: Traditional assessment of a stroke subject's motor ability,
carried out by a therapist who observes and rates the subject's motor
behavior using ordinal measurements scales, is subjective, time
consuming and lacks sensitivity. Rehabilitation robots, which have been
the subject of intense inquiry over the last decade, are equipped with
sensors that are used to develop objective measures of motor behaviors
in a semiautomated way during therapy. This article reviews the current
contributions of robot-assisted motor assessment of the upper limb. It
summarizes the various measures related to movement performance, the
models of motor recovery in stroke subjects and the relationship of
robotic measures to standard clinical measures. It analyses the
possibilities offered by current robotic assessment techniques and the
aspects to address to make robotic assessment a mainstream motor
assessment method.
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