TY - GEN
T1 - Application of a parallel robot in lower limb rehabilitation
T2 - 1st International Conference on Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Applications, RAHA 2016
AU - Rastegarpanah, Alireza
AU - Saadat, Mozafar
AU - Borboni, Alberto
AU - Stolkin, Rustam
PY - 2017/5/18
Y1 - 2017/5/18
N2 - Robotic rehabilitation has a significant potential to reduce the clinical labor costs of physiotherapy. Robotic therapy allows patients to have more in-depth repetitive movements while the therapists evaluate the progress of the recovery. This paper investigates the potential of a 6 degrees of freedom parallel robot, designed and built at the University of Birmingham, for use in robotic rehabilitation of stroke patients. The foot trajectories of eight post-stroke patients were recorded and analyzed in a gait laboratory. A graphical user interface (GUI) has been designed, which enables the physiotherapist to select the desired exercise from a dedicated database. Three different rehabilitation exercises were investigated: hip flexion/extension, ankle dorsiflexion /plantarflexion, and marching. The results show that the robot was able to repeat all of these foot trajectories successfully, while being able to lift 200kg load in its dynamic mode. This suggests that the robot has the capability to successfully deliver lower limb rehabilitation exercises.
AB - Robotic rehabilitation has a significant potential to reduce the clinical labor costs of physiotherapy. Robotic therapy allows patients to have more in-depth repetitive movements while the therapists evaluate the progress of the recovery. This paper investigates the potential of a 6 degrees of freedom parallel robot, designed and built at the University of Birmingham, for use in robotic rehabilitation of stroke patients. The foot trajectories of eight post-stroke patients were recorded and analyzed in a gait laboratory. A graphical user interface (GUI) has been designed, which enables the physiotherapist to select the desired exercise from a dedicated database. Three different rehabilitation exercises were investigated: hip flexion/extension, ankle dorsiflexion /plantarflexion, and marching. The results show that the robot was able to repeat all of these foot trajectories successfully, while being able to lift 200kg load in its dynamic mode. This suggests that the robot has the capability to successfully deliver lower limb rehabilitation exercises.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85025656014&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/RAHA.2016.7931865
DO - 10.1109/RAHA.2016.7931865
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85025656014
T3 - International Conference on Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Applications, RAHA 2016 - Conference Proceedings
BT - International Conference on Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Applications, RAHA 2016 - Conference Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Y2 - 18 December 2016 through 20 December 2016
ER -