Developing a Multi-Joint Upper Limb Exoskeleton Robot for Diagnosis, Therapy, and Outcome Evaluation in Neurorehabilitation

• Published in: IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 490 - 499
• Main Authors: Ren, Yupeng, Kang, Sang Hoon, Park, Hyung-Soon, Wu, Yi-Ning, Zhang, Li-Qun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.05.2013; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Arm; Diagnosis; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted - instrumentation; Elbow; Elbows; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Humans; Joints; Limbs; Man-Machine Systems; Motion Therapy, Continuous Passive - instrumentation; Movement; Movement Disorders - diagnosis; Movement Disorders - rehabilitation; Neurorehabilitation; Orthotic Devices; Patients; Read only memory; rehabilitation robotics; Robot kinematics; robot-aided diagnosis; robot-assisted therapy; Robotics - instrumentation; Robots; Shoulder; Shoulders; Therapy, Computer-Assisted - instrumentation; Treatment Outcome; Wrist

Arm impairments in patients post stroke involve the shoulder, elbow and wrist simultaneously. It is not very clear how patients develop spasticity and reduced range of motion (ROM) at the multiple joints and the abnormal couplings among the multiple joints and the multiple degrees-of-freedom (DOF) d...