Vibration stimulation seems to be an affordable easy-to-use rehabilitation tool. Focal muscle vibration (FV) has potential to reduce spasticity and enhance muscle strength and performance. Combined with robotic assisted movement therapy, the rehabilitation can benefit from improvement of more than one aspect. For example, FV could firstly decrease abnormally increased muscle tone and joint rigidity by tackling volitional control for easier robotic movement exercise. Exactly this approach is evaluated within a clinical trial presented in this paper. FV were applied to relaxed spastic wrist flexor and extensor muscles for 15min. Subsequently, the wrist was engaged in a robotic-assisted game-playing. Results from two cases who completed the trial showed short-term decrease in wrist stiffness as assessed by clinical spasticity measurement Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS). Active range of motion (AROM) and engineering joint stiffness (JS) measurements were estimated using a robotic apparatus and the results complemented previous observations. The AROM increased and JS decreased for both cases when compared at the beginning and at the end of each interventional session. These results are a part of an ongoing clinical trial but show promise for reducing repercussions of spasticity in incomplete spinal cord injury.


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    Titel :

    Effects of Focal Vibration and Robotic Assistive Therapy on Upper Limb Spasticity in incomplete Spinal Cord Injury


    Beteiligte:
    Jevtic Vojinovic, T (Autor:in) / Linley, E (Autor:in) / Zivanovic, A (Autor:in) / Rui Loureiro, CV (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    29.07.2019


    Anmerkungen:

    In: Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR). (pp. pp. 542-547). IEEE: Toronto, Canada. (2019)


    Medientyp :

    Paper


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    DDC:    629




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