Feasibility and safety of acute phase rehabilitation after stroke using the hybrid assistive limb robot suit

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 287-290

  Ueba, Tetsuya ^a   Hamada, Omi ^a   Ogata, Toshiyasu ^a   Inoue, Tooru ^a   Shiota, Etsuji ^a   Sankai, Yoshiyuki ^b  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute phase rehabilitation; Hybrid assistive limb robot suit; Orthostatic hypotension; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRUNNSTROM STAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DETERIORATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYBRID ASSISTIVE LIMB REHABILITATION; MALE; MORTALITY; ORTHOSTATIC HYPERTENSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; REHABILITATION; REHABILITATION CARE; ROBOTICS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BIONICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GAIT ATAXIA; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ROBOTICS; STROKE;

EID: 84878189453     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.53.287     Document Type: Article

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