Home-based system for stroke rehabilitation

Author

Durfee, William ; Deng, Huiqiong ; Nuckley, David ; Rheude, Brandon ; Severson, Amy ; Skluzacek, Katie ; Spindler, Kristen ; Davey, Cynthia ; Carey, James

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011

Firstpage

1823

Lastpage

1826

Abstract

A system was developed for home-based stroke motor rehabilitation of the ankle. A study was conducted to test the hypothesis that moving while concentrating will lead to greater recovery than movement alone. Sixteen post-stroke subjects participated, one half in a tracking training group and the other have in a move group. The tracking training group tracked a target waveform by moving their ankle to control the tracking cursor while the move group moved their ankle approximately the same amount but without target following. Over four weeks subjects completed 3600 trials. The results showed that the Tracking group had more improvement in ankle dorsiflexion compared to the Move group. The remaining assessment criteria showed no significant differences between the groups.

Keywords

medical disorders; patient rehabilitation; ankle; home based system; stroke motor rehabilitation; tracking; Internet; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical treatment; Protocols; Target tracking; Training; Ankle Joint; Arthrometry, Articular; Biofeedback, Psychology; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Female; Humans; Paresis; Physical Therapy Modalities; Self Care; Stroke; Treatment Outcome;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4121-1

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090519

Filename

6090519