L. Marchal Crespo
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Towards Unsupervised Rehabilitation
Development of a Portable Compliant Device for Sensorimotor Hand Rehabilitation
Sensorimotor impairments of the hand after stroke can drastically reduce the ability to perform activities of daily living. Recently, there has been an increased interest in minimally supervised and unsupervised rehabilitation to increase therapy dosage and to complement conve ...
Motor learning is a complex cognitive and motor process underlying neurorehabilitation. Cognitive (e.g., attentional) engagement is important for motor learning, especially early in the learning process. In this study, we investigated if task instructions enforcing the underly ...
In order to identify the clinical requirements for a novel upper-limb robotic device for sensorimotor neurorehabilitation, a survey with 33 participants (including physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, nurses and physicians) was conducted. The results s ...
Towards functional robotic training
Motor learning of dynamic tasks is enhanced by haptic rendering but hampered by arm weight support
BACKGROUND: Current robot-aided training allows for high-intensity training but might hamper the transfer of learned skills to real daily tasks. Many of these tasks, e.g., carrying a cup of coffee, require manipulating objects with complex dynamics. Thus, the absence of somato ...
Haptic training
Which types facilitate (re)learning of which motor task and for whom Answers by a review
The use of robots has attracted researchers to design numerous haptic training methods to support motor learning. However, investigations of new methods yielded inconclusive results regarding their effectiveness to enhance learning due to the diversity of tasks, haptic designs ...
In a parallel development to traditional rigid rehabilitation robotic systems, cable-driven systems are becoming popular. The robowalk expander product uses passive elastic bands in the training of the lower limbs. However, a well-controlled assistance or resistance is desirab ...
A Novel Clinical-Driven Design for Robotic Hand Rehabilitation
Combining Sensory Training, Effortless Setup, and Large Range of Motion in a Palmar Device
Virtual reality (VR) is a promising tool to promote motor (re)learning in healthy users and brain-injured patients. However, in current VR-based motor training, movements of the users performed in a three-dimensional space are usually visualized on computer screens, television ...
Sensory loss in patients with neurological injuries is associated with poor neurorehabilitation training outcomes. However, in robotic neurorehabilitation, sensory interventions receive systematically less attention than motor training. To boost the potential of robotic rehabi ...
Towards Functional Robotic Rehabilitation
Clinical-Driven Development of a Novel Device for Sensorimotor Hand Training
Currently, there is a lack of easy-to-use hand rehabilitation devices which not only retrain motor functions, but also include somatosensory information of the interaction with tangible virtual objects to also regain sensory function. To overcome these shortcomings, we are dev ...
Despite recent advances in robot-assisted training, the benefits of haptic guidance on motor (re)learning are still limited. While haptic guidance may increase task performance during training, it may also decrease participants' effort and interfere with the perception of the ...
Learning a new motor task is a complex cognitive and motor process. Especially early during motor learning, cognitive functions such as attentional engagement, are essential, e.g., to discover relevant visual stimuli. Drawing participant’s attention towards task-relevant stimu ...
Contributed
Background: In children with cerebral palsy(CP), muscle-tendon structures are altered. While interventions exist to treataltered structures, the selection of the most suitable treatment is verycomplex with highly variable outcomes. Musculoskeletal models have ...