Custom-designed Haptic Training For Restoring Reaching Ability To Individuals With Poststroke Hemiparesis
November 21, 2006 – 10:10 pm | posted in StatinsWe present a new technique for retraining reaching skills of hemiparetic stroke survivors in which errors are magnified to encourage learning and compensation.
First, we sought to determine whether adaptation can be exploited for restoring movement ability. Second, we sought to determine whether the benefit persists for the duration of the experiment.
Patients held a horizontal plane robot arm that could exert a variety of forces while recording patients’ movements. All patients showed immediate benefit from the training, although 3 of the 10 patients did not retain these benefits for the remainder of the experiment.
We believe that the error-amplification approach presented here provides a new pathway for augmenting motor relearning in individuals with brain injury.
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