Pilot study of vibration stimulation on neurological rehabilitation

Robot-assisted therapy has been proved effective for dyskinesia, and has many unique advantages compared with traditional treatment, such as repeatability, accuracy, objectivity. But some studies show that the effect of the robot-assisted rehabilitation for improving patients' activities of dai...

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Published inBio-medical materials and engineering Vol. 24; no. 6; pp. 2593 - 2601
Main Authors Sui, Jianfeng, Shull, Pete, Ji, Linhong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.01.2014
Subjects
Adult
Biofeedback, Psychology - methods
Biomedical engineering
Control systems
Control theory
Feedback
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Movement Disorders - physiopathology
Movement Disorders - rehabilitation
Musculoskeletal Manipulations - methods
Patients
Physical Stimulation - methods
Pilot Projects
Rehabilitation
Robotics - methods
Stimulation
Therapy, Computer-Assisted - methods
Treatment Outcome
Vibration
Vibration - therapeutic use
Vibration stimulation
neurological rehabilitation
neuroplasticity
rehabilitation robot
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Summary:Robot-assisted therapy has been proved effective for dyskinesia, and has many unique advantages compared with traditional treatment, such as repeatability, accuracy, objectivity. But some studies show that the effect of the robot-assisted rehabilitation for improving patients' activities of daily life (ADLs) is not obvious. This study introduces a novel auxiliary method-vibration stimulation combined with robots which may improve patients' ADLs. In controlled trials, two kinds of feedback-vibration and visual feedback are applied to prompt subjects for rehabilitation, and electromyographic signals (EMGs) and motion parameters are recorded in real time. Experimental results show that subjects' EMGs using vibration feedback are similar to healthy people, and characteristics of motion are closer to the theoretical value compared with control group. Vibration stimulation may serve as a kind of efficient auxiliary means to improve the efficiency of neurological rehabilitation.
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ISSN:0959-2989
1878-3619
1878-3619
DOI:10.3233/BME-141075