Upper limb rehabilitation after stroke: ARAMIS a “robo-mechatronic” innovative approach and prototype

Author

Pignolo, L. ; Dolce, G. ; Basta, G. ; Lucca, L.F. ; Serra, S. ; Sannita, W.G.

Author_Institution

RAN-Res. in Adavanced NeuroRehabilitation, Crotone, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

24-27 June 2012

Firstpage

1410

Lastpage

1414

Abstract

ARAMIS (Automatic Recovery Arm Motility Integrated System) is a dual exoskeleton robot, intended to provide the therapist with novel and time/cost efficient approach to the rehabilitation of the paretic upper limb after stroke. The system has been developed in order to enable therapists to define and apply patient-specific rehabilitation exercises with multidisciplinary support by neurologist, engineers, ICT specialists and designers. ARAMIS allows three main strategies: 1) Asynchronous Exercise 2) Synchronous Exercise and 3) Virtual Exercise. This paper reports preliminary results from a patients´ sample trained by ARAMIS.

Keywords

mechatronics; medical robotics; patient rehabilitation; patient treatment; ARAMIS; ICT specialists; asynchronous exercise; automatic recovery arm motility integrated system; designers; dual exoskeleton robot; engineers; multidisciplinary support; neurologist; paretic upper limb rehabilitation; patient-specific rehabilitation exercises; robo-mechatronic innovative approach; stroke; therapist; virtual exercise; Exoskeletons; Mechatronics; Protocols; Prototypes; Robots; Synchronous motors; Training;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2012 4th IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

2155-1774

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1199-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BioRob.2012.6290868

Filename

6290868