Efficacy of robotic rehabilitation of ankle impairments in children with cerebral palsy.

Yi Ning Wu; Yupeng Ren; Miriam Hwang; Deborah J. Gaebler-Spira; Li Qun Zhang

Efficacy of robotic rehabilitation of ankle impairments in children with cerebral palsy.

Yi Ning Wu^*, Yupeng Ren, Miriam Hwang, Deborah J. Gaebler-Spira, Li Qun Zhang

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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

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Abstract

The current study introduces a novel rehabilitation robot for treatment of impaired ankle in children with cerebral palsy (CP). The treatment consisted of passive stretching under intelligent control and active movement training with motivating game-playing using the portable robot. After 18 sessions of training (3 sessions/week for 6 weeks), we found significant improvement in 12 children with CP in terms of improved passive and active ranges of motion, selective motor control and mobility functions. The positive outcomes of this study along with the improvements in motor control and functional activities suggest that robotic rehabilitation provides a useful and convenient option of treatment in clinic or patient home for more accessible and frequent rehabilitation.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	4481-4484
Number of pages	4
Journal	Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference
State	Published - Dec 1 2010

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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Signal Processing
Biomedical Engineering
Health Informatics

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Wu, Yi Ning ; Ren, Yupeng ; Hwang, Miriam ; Gaebler-Spira, Deborah J. ; Zhang, Li Qun. / Efficacy of robotic rehabilitation of ankle impairments in children with cerebral palsy. In: Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference. 2010 ; pp. 4481-4484.

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Efficacy of robotic rehabilitation of ankle impairments in children with cerebral palsy. / Wu, Yi Ning; Ren, Yupeng; Hwang, Miriam; Gaebler-Spira, Deborah J.; Zhang, Li Qun.

In: Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference, 01.12.2010, p. 4481-4484.

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