Restoration of motor function is a priority of post-stroke rehabilitation, the aim being to facilitate the patient's reintegration into society. Innovative technologies for neurological rehabilitation must be easy to use and offer patients real benefits, and the treatments they provide must be efficacious and efficient. All these aspects must be carefully evaluated in their development. To achi...

There is an increasing trend in using robots for medical purposes. One specific area is the rehabilitation. There are some commercial exercise machines used for rehabilitation purposes. However, these machines have limited use because of their insufficient motion freedom. In addition, these types of machines are not actively controlled and therefore can not accommodate complicated exercises req...

This paper presents a home-based robot-rehabilitation instrument, called ”MAGNI Dynamics”, that utilized a vision-based kinematic/dynamic module and an adaptive haptic feedback controller. The system is expected to provide personalized rehabilitation by adjusting its resistive and supportive behavior according to a fuzzy intelligence controller that acts as an inference system, which correlates...

Telerehabilitation or E-rehabilitation is the delivery of rehabilitation services over telecom networks. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are about 650 million people with disabilities worldwide; these statistics drive the need for a more applicable Telehealthcare Systems. This paper aims to provide a design description of a novel multilateral telerehabilitation system fo...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The successful motor rehabilitation of stroke, traumatic brain-injured and spinal cord-injured patients requires an intensive and task-specific therapy approach. Budget constraints limit a hand-to-hand therapy approach, so that intelligent machines may offer a solution to promote motor recovery and obtain a better understanding of motor control. This new field of automated or ...

In the remote controlled rehabilitation device, physical therapists must recognize the situation of the patient. The actuator in the device is also required to be flexible so as not to injure the body. In our previous study, the flexible pneumatic cylinder was proposed and tested. The flexible robot arm using the cylinders for human wrist rehabilitation was also developed. In the next step, it ...

While the majority of applications of robotics in the field of rehabilitation focus on the development of smart aids for people without upper extremity function, there is also potential for the robot as a therapy "aide." We designed, built, and pilot-tested hardware and software that used a robot to provide muscle reeducation movement patterns after stroke. This is a report on a field trial, in...