Deans' stroke musings: Design and Evaluation of the LOPES Exoskeleton Robot for Interactive Gait Rehabilitation

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.

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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.

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Design and Evaluation of the LOPES Exoskeleton Robot for Interactive Gait Rehabilitation

LOPES researchers hope to get the device into rehabilitation clinics by early 2012, with a mid-2012 target for introduction into the market.

Is it available and does your hospital know about it? Have they been following this for the past 13 years? Or are they completely incompetent?

Design and Evaluation of the LOPES Exoskeleton Robot for Interactive Gait Rehabilitation

2007, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
Jan F. Veneman, Rik Kruidhof, Edsko E. G. Hekman, Ralf Ekkelenkamp, Edwin H. F. Van Asseldonk, andHerman van der Kooij

Abstract—

This paper introduces a newly developed gait rehabilitation device. The device, called LOPES, combines a freely translatable and 2-D-actuated pelvis segment with a leg exoskeleton containing three actuated rotational joints: two at the hip and one at the knee. The joints are impedance controlled to allow bidirectional mechanical interaction between the robot and the training subject.Evaluation measurements show that the device allows both a “patient-in-charge”and “robot-in-charge”mode, in which the robot is controlled either to follow or to guide a patient, respectively. Electromyography (EMG) measurements (one subject)on eight important leg muscles, show that free walking in the device strongly resembles free treadmill walking; an indication that the device can offer task speciﬁc gait training. The possibilities and limitations to using the device as gait measurement tool are also shown at the moment position measurements are not accurate enough for inverse dynamical gait analysis.