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Effects of unilateral robotic limb loading on gait characteristics in subjects with chronic stroke
BACKGROUND: Hemiparesis after stroke often leads to impaired ankle motor control that impacts gait function. In recent studies, robotic devices have been developed to address this impairment. While capable of imparting forces to assist during training and gait, these devices add mass to the paretic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2887457/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20492698 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-0003-7-23 |
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author | Khanna, Ira Roy, Anindo Rodgers, Mary M Krebs, Hermano I Macko, Richard M Forrester, Larry W |
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description | BACKGROUND: Hemiparesis after stroke often leads to impaired ankle motor control that impacts gait function. In recent studies, robotic devices have been developed to address this impairment. While capable of imparting forces to assist during training and gait, these devices add mass to the paretic leg which might encumber patients' gait pattern. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of the added mass of one of these robots, the MIT's Anklebot, while unpowered, on gait of chronic stroke survivors during overground and treadmill walking. METHODS: Nine chronic stroke survivors walked overground and on a treadmill with and without the anklebot mounted on the paretic leg. Gait parameters, interlimb symmetry, and joint kinematics were collected for the four conditions. Repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests were conducted to examine for possible differences across four conditions for the paretic and nonparetic leg. RESULTS: The added inertia and friction of the unpowered anklebot had no statistically significant effect on spatio-temporal parameters of gait, including paretic and nonparetic step time and stance percentage, in both overground and treadmill conditions. Noteworthy, interlimb symmetry as characterized by relative stance duration was greater on the treadmill than overground regardless of loading conditions. The presence of the unpowered robot loading reduced the nonparetic knee peak flexion on the treadmill and paretic peak dorsiflexion overground (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that for these subjects the added inertia and friction of this backdriveable robot did not significantly alter their gait pattern. |
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spelling | pubmed-28874572010-06-18 Effects of unilateral robotic limb loading on gait characteristics in subjects with chronic stroke Khanna, Ira Roy, Anindo Rodgers, Mary M Krebs, Hermano I Macko, Richard M Forrester, Larry W J Neuroeng Rehabil Research BACKGROUND: Hemiparesis after stroke often leads to impaired ankle motor control that impacts gait function. In recent studies, robotic devices have been developed to address this impairment. While capable of imparting forces to assist during training and gait, these devices add mass to the paretic leg which might encumber patients' gait pattern. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of the added mass of one of these robots, the MIT's Anklebot, while unpowered, on gait of chronic stroke survivors during overground and treadmill walking. METHODS: Nine chronic stroke survivors walked overground and on a treadmill with and without the anklebot mounted on the paretic leg. Gait parameters, interlimb symmetry, and joint kinematics were collected for the four conditions. Repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests were conducted to examine for possible differences across four conditions for the paretic and nonparetic leg. RESULTS: The added inertia and friction of the unpowered anklebot had no statistically significant effect on spatio-temporal parameters of gait, including paretic and nonparetic step time and stance percentage, in both overground and treadmill conditions. Noteworthy, interlimb symmetry as characterized by relative stance duration was greater on the treadmill than overground regardless of loading conditions. The presence of the unpowered robot loading reduced the nonparetic knee peak flexion on the treadmill and paretic peak dorsiflexion overground (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that for these subjects the added inertia and friction of this backdriveable robot did not significantly alter their gait pattern. BioMed Central 2010-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC2887457/ /pubmed/20492698 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-0003-7-23 Text en Copyright ©2010 Khanna et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Khanna, Ira Roy, Anindo Rodgers, Mary M Krebs, Hermano I Macko, Richard M Forrester, Larry W Effects of unilateral robotic limb loading on gait characteristics in subjects with chronic stroke |
title | Effects of unilateral robotic limb loading on gait characteristics in subjects with chronic stroke |
title_full | Effects of unilateral robotic limb loading on gait characteristics in subjects with chronic stroke |
title_fullStr | Effects of unilateral robotic limb loading on gait characteristics in subjects with chronic stroke |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of unilateral robotic limb loading on gait characteristics in subjects with chronic stroke |
title_short | Effects of unilateral robotic limb loading on gait characteristics in subjects with chronic stroke |
title_sort | effects of unilateral robotic limb loading on gait characteristics in subjects with chronic stroke |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2887457/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20492698 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-0003-7-23 |
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