MIT-skywalker
The ability to walk is important for independent living and when this capacity is affected by neurological injury, gait therapy is the traditional approach to re-train the nervous system. The importance of this problem is illustrated by the approximately 5.8 million stroke survivors alive in the US...
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| author | Bosecker, C. J. Krebs, Hermano Igo |
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| description | The ability to walk is important for independent living and when this capacity is affected by neurological injury, gait therapy is the traditional approach to re-train the nervous system. The importance of this problem is illustrated by the approximately 5.8 million stroke survivors alive in the US today and an estimated additional 700,000 strokes occurring each year, many requiring gait therapy. This manuscript presents the design and proof-of-concept testing for a novel device to deliver gait therapy. While robotic devices to train gait therapy exist, none of them take advantage of the concept of passive walkers and most of them impose the kinematics of unimpaired gait on impaired walkers. Yet research has found that proper neural input and stimulation is a critical factor for an efficacious therapy program. This novel device might afford a more ecological gait therapy including heel-strike. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/537152022-10-02T04:03:50Z MIT-skywalker Bosecker, C. J. Krebs, Hermano Igo Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Krebs, Hermano Igo Bosecker, C. J. Krebs, Hermano Igo The ability to walk is important for independent living and when this capacity is affected by neurological injury, gait therapy is the traditional approach to re-train the nervous system. The importance of this problem is illustrated by the approximately 5.8 million stroke survivors alive in the US today and an estimated additional 700,000 strokes occurring each year, many requiring gait therapy. This manuscript presents the design and proof-of-concept testing for a novel device to deliver gait therapy. While robotic devices to train gait therapy exist, none of them take advantage of the concept of passive walkers and most of them impose the kinematics of unimpaired gait on impaired walkers. Yet research has found that proper neural input and stimulation is a critical factor for an efficacious therapy program. This novel device might afford a more ecological gait therapy including heel-strike. 2010-04-15T15:51:23Z 2010-04-15T15:51:23Z 2009-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-1-4244-3788-7 1945-7898 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/53715 Bosecker, C.J., and H.I. Krebs. “MIT-Skywalker.” Rehabilitation Robotics, 2009. ICORR 2009. IEEE International Conference on. 2009. 542-549. © 2009 IEEE en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209592 2009 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE |
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