Abstract
Previous studies using robotic devices that focus on the wrist/fingers following stroke provide an incomplete picture of movement dysfunction because they do not consider the abnormal joint torque coupling that occurs during progressive shoulder abduction loading in the paretic upper limb. This letter introduces a device designed to measure isometric flexion/extension forces generated by the fingers, wrist, and thumb during robot-mediated 3-D dynamic movements of the upper limb. Validation data collected from eight participants with chronic hemiparetic stroke are presented in this paper.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2312-2317 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering |
Volume | 56 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2009 |
Funding
Manuscript received February 2, 2009; revised May 4, 2009. First published June 26, 2009; current version published August 14, 2009. This work was supported in part by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) under Grant H133G070089. Asterisk indicates corresponding author.
Keywords
- Hand
- Kinetic measurements
- Robotic rehabilitation
- Shoulder loading
- Stroke
- Upper extremity
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biomedical Engineering