Customized interactive robotic treatment for stroke: EMG-triggered therapy. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A system for electromyographic (EMG) triggering of robot-assisted therapy (dubbed the EMG game) for stroke patients is presented. The onset of a patient's attempt to move is detected by monitoring EMG in selected muscles, whereupon the robot assists her or him to perform point-to-point movements in a horizontal plane. Besides delivering customized robot-assisted therapy, the system can record signals that may be useful to better understand the process of recovery from stroke. Preliminary experiments aimed at testing the proposed system and gaining insight into the potential of EMG-triggered, robot-assisted therapy are reported.

publication date

  • September 1, 2005

Research

keywords

  • Electromyography
  • Motion Therapy, Continuous Passive
  • Paresis
  • Robotics
  • Stroke Rehabilitation
  • Therapy, Computer-Assisted
  • Upper Extremity
  • User-Computer Interface

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC2752646

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 26244466846

PubMed ID

  • 16200756

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 13

issue

  • 3