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Customized interactive robotic treatment for stroke: EMG-triggered therapy

Year: 2005

Type: article

Abstract: A system for electromyographic (EMG) triggering of robot-assisted therapy (dubbed the EMG game) for stroke patients is presented. The onset of a patient's attempt to move is detected by monitoring EMG in selected muscles, whereupon the robot assists her or him to perform point-to-point movements in a horizontal plane. Besides delivering customized robot-assisted therapy, the system can record signals that may be useful to better understand the process of recovery from stroke. Preliminary experiments aimed at testing the proposed system and gaining insight into the potential of EMG-triggered, robot-assisted therapy are reported.

Source: IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

DOI: 10.1109/tnsre.2005.850423

Authors: L. Dipietro, M. Ferraro, J.J. Palazzolo, H.I. Krebs, B.T. Volpe, N. Hogan

Institutions: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, Burke Medical Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine

Language: English

Topic: Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery

Subfield: Rehabilitation

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development