1. Clinical Efficacy of a New Robot-assisted Gait Training System for Acute Stroke Patients
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Li-Wei Chou, Ching Huang, Fei-Chun Chang, Pei-Yu Yang, Nai-Hsin Meng, and Andy Chien
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030506 rehabilitation ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Rehabilitation ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Biomedical Engineering ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Gait ,Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Physical medicine and rehabilitation ,Gait training ,Medicine ,0305 other medical science ,business ,Stroke ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Neurorehabilitation ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,Acute stroke - Abstract
Purpose Robot-assisted gait rehabilitation has been proposed as a plausible supplementary rehabilitation strategy in stroke rehabilitation in the last decade. However, its exact benefit over traditional rehabilitation remain sparse and unclear. It is therefore the purpose of the current study to comparatively investigate the clinical benefits of the additional robot-assisted training in acute stroke patients compared to standard hospital rehabilitation alone. Methods Ninety acute stroke patients ( Results Both groups demonstrated significant improvement pre- and post-treatment for the BBS (robotic group p = 0.023; control group p = 0.033) but no significant difference (p > 0.1) between the groups were found. However, the robotic training group had more participants demonstrating larger BBS points of improvement as well as greater Brunnstrom stage of improvement, when compared to the control group. No significant within and between group statistical differences (p > 0.3) were found for Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and Taiwanese Depression Questionnaire. Conclusion The addition of robotic gait training on top of standard hospital neurorehabilitation for acute stroke patients appear to produce a slightly greater improvement in clinical functional outcomes, which is not transferred to psychological status.
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- 2021