KineAssist: A Robotic Overground Gait and Balance Training Device
Did your stroke hospital do anything to follow the earlier research on this from October 2012? Or do they incompetently not even have an employee assigned to follow and implement research into rehab protocols? You can blame the board of directors for not setting correct goals and objectives for the hospital.
The latest here:
Michael Peshkin, David A. Brown, Julio J. Santos-Munné, Alex Makhlin,Ela Lewis, J. Edward Colgate, James Patton, Doug Schwandt — Chicago PT LLC, Evanston IL
Abstract
— The KineAssist is a robotic device for gait and balance training. A user-needs analysis led us to focus on increasing the level of challenge to a patient's ability to maintain balance during gait training, and also on maintaining direct involvement of a physical therapist (rather than attempting robotic replacement.) The KineAssist provides partial body weight support and postural torques on the torso; allows many axes of motion of the trunk as well as of the pelvis; leaves the patient's legs accessible to a physical therapist during walking; servo-follows a patient's walking motions overground in forward, rotation, and sidestepping directions; and catches a patient who begins to fall. Design and development of the KineAssist proceeded more rapidly in the context of a small company than would have been possible in most research contexts. A prototype KineAssist has been constructed, and has received FDA approval and IRB clearance for initial human studies. We describe the KineAssist's motivation, design, and use.
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