Quantitative Evaluation of Performance during Robot-assisted Treatment.
Methods Inf Med
; 55(1): 84-8, 2016.
Article
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| ID: mdl-26640835
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
This article is part of the Focus Theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on "Methodologies, Models and Algorithms for Patients Rehabilitation".OBJECTIVES:
The great potential of robots in extracting quantitative and meaningful data is not always exploited in clinical practice. The aim of the present work is to describe a simple parameter to assess the performance of subjects during upper limb robotic training exploiting data automatically recorded by the robot, with no additional effort for patients and clinicians.METHODS:
Fourteen children affected by cerebral palsy (CP) performed a training with Armeo®Spring. Each session was evaluated with P, a simple parameter that depends on the overall performance recorded, and median and interquartile values were computed to perform a group analysis.RESULTS:
Median (interquartile) values of P significantly increased from 0.27 (0.21) at T0 to 0.55 (0.27) at T1â. This improvement was functionally validated by a significant increase of the Melbourne Assessment of Unilateral Upper Limb Function.CONCLUSIONS:
The parameter described here was able to show variations in performance over time and enabled a quantitative evaluation of motion abilities in a way that is reliable with respect to a well-known clinical scale.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Rehabilitation
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Robotics
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Cerebral Palsy
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Upper Extremity
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Adolescent
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Child
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Methods Inf Med
Year:
2016
Document type:
Article