How Gait Training Via Exoskeleton Helps Boost Stroke Recovery
Gait training using a robotic exoskeleton has the potential to help spur along the recovery of motor function after a stroke, a study published in Frontiers in Neurorobotics suggests.
Gait training using a robotic exoskeleton has the potential to help spur along the recovery of motor function after a stroke, a study published in Frontiers in Neurorobotics suggests.
The majority of participants in a multi-center clinical study of the ReStore Soft Exo-Suit for the rehabilitation of individuals with lower limb disability due to stroke achieved meaningful walking speed improvements, according to ReWalk Robotics Ltd, in a media release.
Therapists use activity, technology, and evidence-based guidelines to deliver treatment that rewires motor pathways. A feature for the November/December 2018 issue of Rehab Management by Meri K. Slaugenhaupt, MPT, and Valerie Bucek, MA, CCC-SLP/L.
Elizabeth Watson, PT, DPT, NCS, shares how an intensive, boot camp-style, activity-based program fosters recovery and emotional well-being, in this feature for the March 2020 issue of Rehab Management.
Read MorePost Acute Medical LLC, a system of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, has acquired three additional EksoNR devices from Ekso Bionics to expand the availability of exoskeleton-assisted rehabilitation to seven of its facilities.
Read MoreIn Nature Neuroscience, Northwestern Medicine researchers describe their ability to reconstruct the stable neural signal that drives skills like tying sneakers. This discovery could be a potential advance in the design of neuroprostheses, they suggest.
Read MoreBIONIK Laboratories Corp has partnered with Intelliware Development to customize and deploy InMotion Connect, a software program designed to connect InMotion robotic devices with hospital information systems.
Read MoreEkso Bionics Holdings Inc announces the expansion of its medical exoskeleton portfolio with an upper extremity rehabilitation device called EksoUE.
Read MoreVia the worldwide adoption of its EksoGT exoskeleton, stroke and spinal cord injury patients have been able to take 100 million steps to date—the equivalent of 50,000 miles, or the distance of walking around the world twice, Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc estimates.
Read MoreThree patients with chronic paraplegia were reportedly able to walk over ground thanks to precise electrical stimulation of their spinal cords via a wireless implant. A study from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland details the research.
Read MoreResearchers from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have designed a robotic arm that they suggest could help facilitate self-help and upper-limb mobile rehabilitation for stroke patients.
Read MoreREHACARE 2018, the International Trade Fair for Rehabilitation and Care, will take place September 26 to 29 at the fairgrounds in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Read MoreClinical decision-making for restoring gait after spinal cord injury guides the use of therapeutic technologies for reaching patient goals. A feature for the July/August 2018 issue of Rehab Management by Tracy Oostema, PT, DPT, and Kristina Simpson, PT, MSPT.
Read MoreThe FDA-cleared HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) robotic SCI treatment device, developed by Japan-based Cyberdyne Inc, is now available in the United States via a partnership with Brooks Rehabilitation.
Read MoreA collaborative research team from Shinshu University in Japan has designed a wearable robot to support a person’s hip joint while walking. Details of their prototype are published in Smart Materials and Structures.
Read MoreToyota Mobility Foundation, in partnership with Nesta’s Challenge Prize Centre, has launched the $4 million Mobility Unlimited Challenge to develop mobility options for people with lower-limb paralysis.
Read MoreReWalk Robotics Ltd, in collaboration with Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biological Inspired Engineering, recently introduced their prototype of a soft suit exoskeleton designed to assist stroke survivors.
Read MoreResearchers from China and Denmark have developed a wearable lower-limb robot exoskeleton designed to help aid the gait rehabilitation of stroke and spinal cord injury patients.
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