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

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

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

If we had a complete database of stroke research and protocols we wouldn't be wasting time and money doing literature reviews. But our fucking failures of stroke associations can't even create a simple database.

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

Giovanni Morone
1,2
Stefano Paolucci
1,2
Andrea Cherubini
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Domenico De Angelis
1
Vincenzo Venturiero
1
Paola Coiro
1
Marco Iosa
1,2
1
Private Inpatient Unit,
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Clinical Laboratory of Experimental Neurorehabilitation, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy;
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Department of Robotics, LIRMM UM-CNRS, Montpellier, France

Abstract:

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 systems to deﬁne new methods for treating neurological injuries, especially stroke. The use of robots in gait training can enhance rehabilitation, but it needs to be used according to well-deﬁned neuroscientiﬁc principles. The ﬁeld of robot-mediated neuroreha- bilitation brings challenges to both bioengineering and clinical practice. This article reviews the state of the art (including commercially available systems) and perspectives of robotics in poststroke rehabilitation for walking recovery. A critical revision, including the problems at stake regarding robotic clinical use, is also presented.