Assessment-driven selection and adaptation of exercise difficulty in robot-assisted therapy: A pilot study with a hand rehabilitation robot

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Metzger, Jean Claude ^a   Lambercy, Olivier ^a   Califfi, Antonella ^b   Dinacci, Daria ^b   Petrillo, Claudio ^b   Rossi, Paolo ^b   Conti, Fabio M ^b   Gassert, Roger ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Clinica Hildebrand Centro di Riabilitazione Brissago   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Customized; Hand function; Individualized; Neurocognitive therapy; Patient cooperative; Patient tailored; Proprioception; Sensory function

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; EXERCISE; FOLLOW UP; FUGL MEYER ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONS OF THE SENSE ORGANS AND THE SENSORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND REHABILITATION ROBOT; HAPTIC PERCEPTION; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; ROBOT ASSISTED THERAPY; ROBOTICS; SENSORIMOTOR COORDINATION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT DURATION; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HAND; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STROKE REHABILITATION;

ADULT; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; ROBOTICS; STROKE REHABILITATION;

EID: 84961721919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17430003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-0003-11-154     Document Type: Article

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