ROBOTICS APPLICATION IN PEOPLE WITH WEAK MUSCLES – STANDING AND WALKING
Abstract
In this review paper we provide brief information on three commercially available biomechatronic devices that were primarily developed for neurological rehabilitation after stroke and spinal cord injury. First, we present Balance Trainer, a biomechatronic device that enables safe standing and balancing environment where the level of balancing support can be varied according to a particular subject’s needs. Gait Trainer and Locomat are biomechatronic/robotic devices that enable repetitive practice of gait-like movement in non-ambulatory subjects. We briefly discuss potential application of the presented devices for therapeutical purposes in people with muscular distrophy.Downloads
References
Liepert J, Bauder H, Wolfgang HR, Miltner WH et al. Treatment-induced cortical reorganization after stroke in humans, Stroke 2000; 31: 1210–6.
Liepert J, Graef S, Uhde I et al. Training-induced changes of motor cortex representations in stroke patients, Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 2000; 101: 321–6.
Matjačić Z, Johannesen IL, Sinkjaer T. A multi-purpose rehabilitation frame: A novel apparatus for balance training during standing of neurologically impaired individuals. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development 2000; 37: 68–91.
Hesse S, Uhlenbrock. A mechanised gait trainer for restoration of gait. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development 2000; 37: 701–8.
Colombo G, Joerg M, Schreier. Treadmill training of paraplegic patients using a robotic orthosis. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development 2000; 37: 693–700.
Matjačić Z, Hesse S, Sinkjaer T. BalanceReTrainer – A new standing-balance training apparatus and methods applied to a chronic hemiparetic subject with a neglect syndrome, NeuroRehabilitation 2003; in press.
Hesse S, Werner C, Uhlenbrock D, v.Frankenberg S, Bardeleben A, BrandlHesse B. An electromechanical gait trainer for restoration of gait in hemiparetic stroke patients: Preliminary results. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair 2001; 15: 39–50.
Colombo G, Wirz M, Dietz V. Driven gait orthosis for improvement of locomotor training in paraplegic patients. Spinal Cord 2001; 39: 252–5.
Matjačić Z, Voigt M, Popović D et al. Functional postural responses after perturbations in multiple directions in a standing man: A principle of decoupled control. Journal of Biomechanics 2001; 34: 187–96.
Matjačić Z. Control of ankle and hip joint stiffness for arm-free standing in paraplegia. Neuromodulation 2001; 4: 37–46.
The Author transfers to the Publisher (Zdravniški vestnik/Slovenian Medical Journal) all economic copyrights following form Article 22 of the Slovene Copyright and Related Rights Act (ZASP), including the right of reproduction, the right of distribution, the rental right, the right of public performance, the right of public transmission, the right of public communication by means of phonograms and videograms, the right of public presentation, the right of broadcasting, the right of rebroadcasting, the right of secondary broadcasting, the right of communication to the public, the right of transformation, the right of audiovisual adaptation and all other rights of the author according to ZASP.
The aforementioned rights are transferred non-exclusively, for an unlimited number of editions, for the term of the statutory
The Author can make use of his work himself or transfer subjective rights to others only after 3 months from date of first publishing in the journal Zdravniški vestnik/Slovenian Medical Journal.
The Publisher (Zdravniški vestnik/Slovenian Medical Journal) has the right to transfer the rights, acquired parties without explicit consent of the Author.
The Author consents that the Article be published under the Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 (attribution-non-commercial) or comparable licence.
